Name George Smith | ||
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Died March 3, 1942, Balerno, United Kingdom Books The Historical Geograp, The life of Henry Drummond, Jerusalem: The Topograp, The Book Of Twelve Prophets, The early poetry of Israel in it | ||
Education University of Edinburgh | ||
George adam smith
Sir George Adam Smith FBA (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 in Madras.
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Life
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 was appointed a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King George V in 1933, and reappointed by King Edward VIII and King George VI. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1916-17.
From 1924 to 1938 he was Patron of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen.
Publications
Most of his papers are held in the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh.
His Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (HGHL), published in London in 1915, remains a standard reference book until today.
Family
He married Lillian Buchanan (1866-1949). They had seven children: George Buchanan Smith (1890-1915); Robert Dunlop Smith (1892-1917); Lilian May Buchanan Drew (1894-1980); Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno (1898-1984); Kathleen Paget Thomson (1900-1941); Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999); Margaret Buchanan Smith Clarke (1910-2000).
George Adam Smith, Lilian Buchanan and Alick Buchanan Smith are buried together in the north-east corner of Currie Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh.