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birth
He was born in Kirkaldy. His mother was Margaret, she came from a family of land owners. His father died six months before he was born. -
Scottish Enlightenment
He was influanced by teacher to persure Scottish Enlightenment. -
Glasgow University
He started studying at a university at the age of 14. He was very influenced by his professor Francis Hutcheson. -
Graduated
He was awardance of a prestigious "Snell Exhibition" scholarship. Then he went on to study at Oxford University. -
In oxford
He returning homewards to base himself in Edinburgh. He had in any case been unimpressed with the standard of teaching he had found at oxford. -
professor
He became a professor at Glasgow university. He taught logic. -
professorial chair of Moral Philosophy
Adam Smith secured the more richly rewarded professorial chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. -
Theory of Moral Sentiments
His book Theory of Moral Sentiments won him an an intellectual reputation in such foreign countries as France and Germany -
Resign
His book did so well he resigned from his teaching position. He became a private tutor for royals. -
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
as an interesting way of productively spending otherwise idle hours in Toulouse, France, and he influanced An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations -
"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
He then returned to Scotland. then pulished "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" -
lord rector of the University of Edinburgh
He was named lord rector of the University of Edinburgh. -
commissioner of customs in Scotland
This post was well paid and Adam Smith even contacted his former aristocratic pupil volunteering to relinquish the annuity that he had been awarded. -
death
Adam Smith died at Edinburgh and was buried some days later in Canongate churchyard in that city. -
gypsies?
Smith briefly kidnapped by gypsies, according to a contemporary biography by Dugald Stewart.
