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Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. He was born June 16, 1790.
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At the age of fourteen, he entered the University of Glasgow on scholarship
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Smith was awrded the Snell exhibition and left to attend Balliol College
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Smith began suffering from shaking fits, probably the symptoms of a nervous breakdown. He left Oxford University before his scholarship ended.
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He met the philosopher David Hume, who was his senior by more than a decade
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He returned home, and after delivering a series of well-received lectures was made first chair of logic
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Then chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.
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Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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The University of Glasgow conferred on Smith the title of Doctor of Laws
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He left academia to tutor the young duke of Buccleuch.
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For more than two years they traveled throughout France and into Switzerland, an experience that brought Smith into contact with his contemporaries
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Smith retired to his birthplace of Kirkcaldy to write The Wealth of Nations.
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he was appointed commissioner of customs
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He occupied the honorary position of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow
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Smith died in Edinburgh. He was never married.
