Adam Smith!

Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy in 1723. His father was Adam Smith and he was married to Margaret Douglas. When Adam Smith was three years old, he was Kidnapped by thinkers and his uncle recovered him.

In 1737he went to Glasgow University , to study moral philosopy. Three years later, Smith went to Balliol Collage, in Oxford as Snell Exhibitoner. After six years ,he left Oxford and returned to Kirkdaldy.

A few years later, Lord Kames invited him to lecture on belle-letters and jurispredence in Edinburgh . There, Adam Smith met David Hume and they had a good relationship.

In 1751, he was elected Professor of logic in the university of Glasgow. A year later he left the chair of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow university.

When Adam was 36 years old, he published his Teory of Moral Sentimental.

In 1764 he left Glasgow to became tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch on the Grand Tour o Europe. There Smith met Voltaire, Franklin, Quesnay and other prominent intellectuals.

when he was 45 years old, he returned from the Gran Tour and he was elected a Fellow of the reyal Society, and began work on the Wealth of Nations.

Ten years later, Adam moved to Londo and met figures such as Reynolds, Garrick and Johnson. There he published " The wealth of Nations ".

In 1778, he was appointed Cominisioner of Customs for Scotland andthen returned to Edinburgh, where he lived with his mother.

A some time later, Adam became a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

At the age of 67, he died after a painful illness, and he was buried in the Canongate cementery in Edinburgh.