Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

He was the post humour son of Adam Smith and Margaret Douglass.

When he was 3 years old, Smith was kidnapped by tinker, but was recovered by his uncle.

Several years later, he went to Glasgow University and he studied moral philosophy until 1740 he went to Balliol College.

At the age of 23, Adam Smith left Oxford and returned to Kirkcaldy.

Two years later, he was invented to lecture on belle-letters and juries prudence in Edinburgh. After that, he met David Horne, and they were good friends.

In 1751, Adam Smith was elected for "Professor", of logic at Glasgow University. Several years later, Smith published this Theory of Moral Sentiments.

When he was 41 years old, Smith left Glasgow to become tutor on the young Duke of Bioleach on the Grand Tour of Europe, he met Voltaire, Quesnay and Franklin. And other prominent intellectuals too.

Two years later, Adam Smith returned from the Grand Tour, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and began work on the Wealth of Nations.

At the age of 50, he moved to Condon and met Enlightenment figures such as Reynolds, Gerick and Johnson.Next he published The Walth of Nations.

Few years later A. Smith became a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In the end, in 1790 A. Smith died after painful illness, and was buried in the Carrongate cemetery in Edinburgh's Royal Mile.

 

 

 

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