| Administrative History | George Adam Smith was born in Calcutta in 1856, the son of a local newspaper editor. He was educated at Edinburgh University and at New College, Edinburgh, Tübingen and Leipzig. He held positions in the Free Church in Brechin and Aberdeen between periods of travel in the Middle East, then embarked on a series of lectureships in the United States of America. He returned again to Britain and took up the post of Principal of Aberdeen University in 1909, a post he held until his retirement in 1935. Two of his three sons were killed in the First World War. He was Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland from 1916 to 1917, and chosen to be one of the Royal Chaplains in 1933. His publications are principally religious. He died in 1942. |