Smith, George Adam, 1856-1942
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found: His The life of Henry Drummond ... 1898.
found: The war, the nation and the church, 1916:t.p. (Sir George Adam Smith, M.A., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Principal and Vice-chancellor of the University of Aberdeen)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 16 Feb., 2017(Smith, Sir George Adam; Old Testament scholar and geographer, was born on 19 October 1856; born in Calcutta; Smith went to Cairo; he learned Arabic and travelled to Palestine for the first time in the spring of 1880; from 1883 Smith regularly visited Switzerland and he became an enthusiastic mountaineer; elected to the Alpine Club in 1886; from 1909 to 1935 Smith was principal of the University of Aberdeen; late in his life Smith adopted his second forename, Adam, as an additional surname, though he continued also to use and be referred to as "Smith" alone; in 1935 he and Lady Adam Smith retired to Sweethillocks, Balerno, near Edinburgh, where he died on 3 March 1942) - http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36139
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1980-04-14: new
2017-02-17: revised
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