George Adam Smith (October 19, 1856 - 1942), Scottish divine, was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then principal of the Doveton College.
He was educated at Edinburgh in the Royal High School, the University and New College. After studying at Tübingen and Leipzig and travelling in Egypt and Syria, he entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and was appointed professor of Old Testament subjects in the Free Church College at Glasgow 1892. In 1909 he was appointed principal of the University of Aberdeen and was knighted in 1916.
Adam's father, who had died before Adam's birth, was a "comptroller of customs." In 1740, at the age of seventeen, Smith was sent off to Oxford on scholarship.
Smith lead a quiet and sheltered life; he lived with his mother (she lived to be ninety) and remained a bachelor all his life.
AdamSmith's approach to his work was first to do a historical study of his subject, and then to advance the area, often building on the work of his contemporaries: he was well aware of the work done by Montesquieu and the French Physiocrats.
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