Abstract
AbstractAdam Smith was born and baptized on June 5, 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the son of Adam Smith, Sr. and his wife, Margaret Douglas. He died on July 17, 1790, at Panmure House in Edinburgh and was buried there in Canongate churchyard. An individual who chose to live a private and socially retiring life – more than half of it with his mother and a cousin in the city of his birth – Smith sought with considerable success to protect his lasting reputation by having many of his private and unpublished papers and lectures burned “without any examination” at the time of death. Fortunately for posterity, some of Smith's essays on philosophical subjects escaped this conflagration and were published posthumously by his literary executors. A further two sets of notes on his lectures on jurisprudence and one set from his lectures on rhetoric andbelles lettreslater emerged in the form of student accounts and have been restored to scholars.
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