Born in 1723, died in 1790; educated at Glasgow and Oxford;
lecturer in Edinburgh in 1748; professor in Glasgow in 1751;
became tutor to the Duke of Buccleuch in 1763; traveled on
the Continent in 1764-66; lived afterwards in retirement at
Kirkcaldy; became Commissioner of Customs in Edinburgh in
1778; elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow in
1787; his "Moral Sentiments" published in 1759; his "Wealth
of Nations" in 1776.
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