George Adam Smith

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Note in particular that this George Smith is to be distinguished from George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876) who researched in some overlapping areas.
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Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen
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The grave of George Adam Smith, Currie Churchyard

Sir George Adam Smith Template:Post-nominals (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1942) was a Scottish theologian. He was the Principal of the University of Aberdeen between 1909 and 1935 and an important figure in the United Free Church of Scotland.

Life

He was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras.Template:Sfn His mother was Janet Colquhoun Smith (née Adam).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> By 1870 the family had returned to Scotland and were living at Scagore House in Seafield, Edinburgh.

He was educated at Edinburgh in the Royal High School.Template:Sfn He then studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and the New College, graduating MA in 1875.Template:Cn

After studying for summer semesters as a postgraduate at the University of Tübingen (1876) and the University of Leipzig (1878) and travelling in Egypt and Syria, he was ordained into the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 and served at the Queen's Cross Free Church in Aberdeen.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and Old Testament subjects in the Free Church College at Glasgow. In 1900 (at its creation) he moved from the Free Church of Scotland to the United Free Church of Scotland.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In 1909, he was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, a post he held until his retirement in 1935. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1916, and was knighted in the same year.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1916-17.<ref>These facts of his life are largely drawn from S.A. Cook,'George Adam Smith 1856-1942', Proceedings of the British Academy, vol.xxviii (London: Oxford University Press).</ref>

In 1917, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Horne, Cargill Gilston Knott, Ben Peach and John Sutherland Black.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

He was appointed a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King George V in 1933,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and reappointed by King Edward VIII<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and King George VI.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

From 1924 to 1938 he was Patron of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He died at home, "Sweethillocks" in Balerno south-west of Edinburgh on 3 March 1942. He is buried with his wife and children in the north-east corner of Currie Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh.Template:Cn

Family

In 1889 he married Alice Lillian Buchanan (1866-1949), daughter of Sir George Buchanan MD FRS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They had seven children:

Works

Bibliography

  • Iain D. Campbell, Fixing the Indemnity: The Life and Work of Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942) (Carlyle, Paternoster Press, 2004) (Paternoster Theological Monographs - PTM).

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