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There is not an exact date of his birth. Smith's father was widower how married his mother Margaret Douglas.and his mother died two months after he was born. Adam Smith born in Kirkcaldy, Fife and baptismed there.
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His mother encouraged him to pursue scholarly ambitions. The school he was went to was Burgh School of Kirkcaldy, which at the time was the on of the best school in Scotland at the time.
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Smith enter to the University of Glasgow. He studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson.
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Adam's was award Snell exhibition and went to Balliol College at Oxford.
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Adam Smith considered the teaching at the University of Glasgow far superior to that at Oxford. Smith desided to head to University of Edinburgh.Smith was the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh studied under the patronage of Lord Kames.
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Smith first travelled as a tutor to Toulouse, France, where he stayed for one and a half years left because found Toulouse boring.Second touring the south of France, the group moved to Geneva, where Smith met with the philosopher Voltaire. After the Geneva, the group moved to Paris where he meet Benjamin Franklin.
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The tutor end early because of Henry Scott's younger brother died in Paris. Smith return home to that year to Kirkcaldy, and devoted much of the next ten years to his magnum opus. Also became friends with young blind man Henry Moyes.
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In May 1773, Smith was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London, and was elected a member of the Literary Club in 1775. The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 and was an instant success, selling out its first edition in only six months.
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Here moved to his mother house in Scotland and became the Lord of the Rector of the University of Glasgow. He died in the northern wing of the Panmure House in Edinburgh after painful illness. He was buried at the Canongate Kirkyard.
