Smith, Very Rev Sir George Adam, Kt, 1916; MA, DD, LLD, LittD, FBA 1916; Chaplain to the King in Scotland since 1933; Chaplain 1st Class TF; Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University, 1909-1935; born Calcutta, 19 October 1856; eldest son of late George Smith, LLD, CIE, formerly editor of the Friend of India, and Janet Colquhoun, daughter of Robert Adam; married 1889, Lilian, daughter of Sir George Buchanan, FRS, late medical officer of the Local Government Board; one son (two killed in European War) three daughters. Royal High School, University, and New College, Edinburgh; University of Tbingen and University of Leipzig.After travelling in Egypt and Syria, became assistant to Rev. John Fraser, Free West Church, Brechin, 1880; Hebrew tutor, Free Church College, Aberdeen, 1880-1882; minister of Queen's Cross Free Church, 1882-1892; travelled in Syria and East of Jordan, 1891, 1901, 1904; Percy Turnbull Lect. on Hebrew Poetry, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, 1896; Lyman Beecher Lecturer, Yale Univ., 1899; Visiting Professor, Chicago University, and Earle Lecturer, Berkeley, California, 1909; Schweich Lecturer, British Academy, 1910; Jowett Lecturer, London, 1900; Professor of OT Lang. Liter and Theology, UF Church College, Glasgow, 1892; Chairman Scottish Council for Women's Trades; Moderator of the General Assembly United Free Church of Scotland, 1916-1917; commissioned by British Foreign Office and American National Committee on the Moral Aims of the Allies to deliver addresses on this subject in the US, 1918; Baird Lecturer, Glasgow, 1922; President Sir Walter Scott Club, 1930.The Book of Isaiah (2 vols), 1888-1890; rev. edition, 1927; The Preaching of the Old Testament to the Age, 1893; Historical Geography of the Holy Land, 1894 (25th edit. 1931); The Twelve Prophets (2 vols), 1896-1897; rev. edition, 1928; The Life of Henry Drummond, 1898 (7th ed. 1902); Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament, 1901; The Forgiveness of Sins, and other Sermons, 1904; Jerusalem; the Topography, Economics, and History, 1908; The Early Poetry of Israel (Schweich Lectures), 1912; Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land, with Dr J. G. Bartholomew, 1914; Syria and the Holy Land, 1918; Deuteronomy (The Cambridge Bible), 1918; Our Common Conscience, Addresses delivered in America during the Great War, 1918; The Teaching of the OT in Schools; Jeremiah, 1923, revised edition, 1929; (with John Buchan) The Kirk in Scotland, 1930.
From the guide to the George Adam Smith Papers, 1859-1949, (National Library of Scotland)
