Smith’s Family Background

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 1 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 3-5 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Adam Smith was born into a family of Scottish landowners and farmers, with connections to a fair sprinkling of educated functionaries of the State who had legal training and political ambitions. His father, Adam Smith senior, was a Scottish lawyer who had been one such functionary during the ill-tempered shenanigans over the Union of the English and Scottish parliaments in 1707, during which he became known to the important Argyll interest. He was a man of some distinction, originally from Aberdeen, and well enough connected to be awarded a post in the Customs service in return for his loyalty.

Keywords: Custom Service; High Street; Single Parent Household; Political Ambition; Oedipus Complex (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_1

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