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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.
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He was influanced by teacher to persure Scottish Enlightenment.
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He started studying at a university at the age of 14. He was very influenced by his professor Francis Hutcheson.
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He was awardance of a prestigious "Snell Exhibition" scholarship. Then he went on to study at Oxford University.
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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.
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He became a professor at Glasgow university. He taught logic.
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Adam Smith secured the more richly rewarded professorial chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
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His book Theory of Moral Sentiments won him an an intellectual reputation in such foreign countries as France and Germany
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His book did so well he resigned from his teaching position. He became a private tutor for royals.
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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
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He then returned to Scotland. then pulished "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
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He was named lord rector of the University of Edinburgh.
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This post was well paid and Adam Smith even contacted his former aristocratic pupil volunteering to relinquish the annuity that he had been awarded.
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Adam Smith died at Edinburgh and was buried some days later in Canongate churchyard in that city.
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Smith briefly kidnapped by gypsies, according to a contemporary biography by Dugald Stewart.
