APPENDIX. 55 
Ill, Account of the Lire and Writinés of ADAM SMITH, LL.D. 
[Read by Mr STEWART, Fan. 21. and March 18. 1793. ] 
SECTION I. 
From Mr Smita’s Birth till the Publication of the T heory of Moral 
Sentiments. 
DAM SMITH, Author of the Inquiry into the Nature 
and Caufes of the Wealth of Nations, was the fon of 
Apam Smitu, Comptroller of the Cuftoms at Kirkaldy *, and 
of Marcaret Dovctas, daughter of Mr Douctas of Stra- 
thenry. He was the only child of the marriage, and was born. 
at Kirkaldy on the 5th of June 1723, a few months after the 
death of. his father. 
His. 
* Mr Smitu, the father, was a native of Aberdeenfhire, and in the earlier parte 
of his life practifed at Edinburgh as a writer tothe Signet. He was afterwards pri- 
vate fecretary to the Earl of Loudoun, (during the time that he held the offices of 
principal Secretary of State for Scotland, and of Keeper of the Great Seal), and 
continued in his employment till 1713 or 1714, when he was appointed comptroller 
of the cuftoms at Kirkaldy. He was alfo clerk to the courts martial and councils 
of war for Scotland; an office which he held from 1707 till his death. As it is 
now feventy years fince he died, the accounts I have received of him are very im- 
perfect ; but from the particulars already mentioned, it may be prefumed, that he 
was.a man.of more than common abilities. 
