Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the posthumous son of Adam Smith (former Private Secretary to the Principal Secretary of State for Scotland and Controller of the customs at kirkcaldy) and his wife Margaret Douglas.
In the begining Adam Smith was kidnapped by tinkers but he was recovered by his uncle. After eleven years Adam Smith entered Glasgaw University, wher he studiosophy under Professor Francis Hutcheson.
When he was eighteen, he entered in Balliol College, Oxford as Snell Exhibitioner. In 1746 he left Oxford and he come back to Kirkcaldy. Two years later, when he was invited to lecture on belle-letters and jurisprudence in Edinburgh under Lord Kames, he met David Hune, who became a close friend.
By the time he was twenty-nine, he was elected Professor of Logic at Glasgow University. Next year, he was transfered to the Chair of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow Unviersity. When seven years had passed, he published his Theory of Moral Sentiments at the age of 36.
In 1764 Adam Smith left Glasgow to become tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch on the Grand Tour of Europe, by the time he met Voltaire, Franklin, Questnay and other prominent intellectuals. After two years, he returned from the Grad Tour, where he was electd Fellow of the Royal Society, and finally began to work on The Wealth of Nations.
When he was 56, before he moved to London and met Enlightenment figures such as Reynolds, Garrick and Johnson, The Wealth of Nations was published.
At last in 1778 he was appointed Commissioner of Customs for Scotland an moved back to Edinburgh to live with his mother. Finally after fife years, he became a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In the end, Adam Smith died in 1779 after a painful illness, then he was buried in the Canongate cementery in Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
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