George Adam Smith Papers 1859-1949

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George Adam Smith Papers 1859-1949

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Smith, George Adam, 1856-1942

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George Adam Smith was born in Calcutta on 19 October 1856. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and he studied at Edinburgh University and New College, Edinburgh, and also at the Universities of Tuebingen and Leipzig. A period of travel followed in Egypt and Syria, and then in 1880 he became an assistant at the Free West Church in Brechin, Angus. Between 1880 and 1882 he was a Hebrew tutor at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, then Minister of Queens' Cross Free Church, 1882-1892...

Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith

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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 i...