Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, Glasgow
- Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, Glasgow
The Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy is a chair at the University of Glasgow
A lectureship was founded in 1892; the chair was established in 1896 with a gift from Andrew Stewart (iron and tube manufacturer in Glasgow).
The patron is the University Court acting with a representative of the Merchants' House of Glasgow, the Trades House of Glasgow and the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow.
Adam Smith Professors of Political Economy
* William Smart MA DPhil (1896)
* William Robert Scott MA DPhil LLD LittD DLitt FRBA (1915)
* Alec Lawrence Macfie MA DLitt LLD (1945)
* Thomas Wilson OBE MA PhD FBA (1958)
* David Vines MA PhD (1985)
* Andrew Stewart Skinner MA BLitt FRSE FBA (1994)
* Gary Koop MA PhD (2000)
* Ronald MacDonald BA MA PhD FRSE (2006)
ee also
*List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
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