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Adam Smith An outline biography Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland. His father, who had held the post of "comptroller of customs" at Kirkaldy, died some six months before his birth. His mother, Margaret Douglas, came from a family of substantial landowners. In 1737, at the age of fourteen, he began a course of study in moral philosophy at Glasgow university. At that time Glasgow was at the center of the so-called "Scottish Enlightenment" and he was much influenced by the personality of his famous philosophy teacher Francis Hutcheson. In 1740 he graduated and was awarded a prestigious "Snell Exhibition" scholarship. He subsequently headed south on horseback, to journey over several days, to study at Oxford University. At Balliol College, Oxford, Smith was subsequently taught in line with the traditions of Classical scholarship and also seems to have interested himself privately in philosophy. He did not feel...

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