Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameSir George Adam SMITH Very Rev, 9624
Birth1856
Death1942
FatherDr George SMITH CIE , 9622 (1833-1919)
MotherJanet Colquhoun Agnes ADAM , 9729 (1832-1888)
Spouses
Birth1866
Death1949
FatherSir George BUCHANAN FRCP FRS , 9758 (1869-1936)
MotherAlice Mary Agmar SEATON , 9759 (1846-1925)
ChildrenGeorge Buchanan , 9764
 Robert Dunlop , 9765
 Alick , 9766
 Janet (Buchanan) , 9767 (1905-1999)
 Kathleen Buchanan Adam , 9768 (-1941)
 Margaret Elphinston Adam , 9769 (1905-)
Notes for Sir George Adam SMITH Very Rev
George Adam Smith (19 October 1856 - 3 March 1942), Scottish theologian, was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school.

He was educated at Edinburgh in the Royal High School, the University of Edinburgh and the New College. After studying for summer semesters at the University of Tübingen (1876) and the University of Leipzig (1878) 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 in 1892. In 1909 he was appointed principal 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. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1916-17.[1] Most of his papers are held in the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh.
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