# Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner

Date: 1740

## The fact

On 7 July 1740 Smith was admitted at Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner from Glasgow, remaining until 1746. The dated Oxford residence is not the Glasgow chair and not a 1776 chapter-split of WN. [Adam Smith](/people/adam-smith)’s documented role is: He held a Glasgow Snell exhibition at Balliol from 1740 to 1746. Do not treat WN’s Oxford satire as a 1776-only fact without this residence. Do not add another WN March split. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Adam Smith's documented role is: He held a Glasgow Snell exhibition at Balliol from 1740 to 1746.

## Context

The Snell Exhibition funded a Scottish student’s Oxford stay. Smith later wrote that Oxford professors had given up teaching. That indictment is evidence for this residence’s quality, not a licence to split WN into more March days. 1976 editions remain later machines. Named others on the file: Balliol tutors, Snell foundation officers, and later Smith as critic of the place share the file. The public setting is the file around 1740-07-07. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner. The setting of Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner is the public file around 1740-07-07. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Oxford heritage and Britannica independently date the 1740–46 Balliol residence. Official: University of Oxford — Balliol / Snell Exhibition heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford). Independent: Britannica — Adam Smith at Oxford 1740–46 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: University of Oxford — Balliol / Snell Exhibition heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford). Independent carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith at Oxford 1740–46 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: University of Oxford — Balliol / Snell Exhibition heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford).

## Significance

Worsening education-access path: an Oxford sojourn he later described as idle. Medium confidence; the indictment is his later print. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated Oxford sojourn later described as intellectually idle is a worsening education-access heading of the received life. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1740 Balliol admission as Snell Exhibitioner. Not established: a unique 1740s learning series, or extra WN day-splits. Established: a sourced public record of Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner under 1740-07-07. Established: a sourced public record of Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner under 1740-07-07.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat WN’s Oxford satire as a 1776-only fact without this residence. Do not add another WN March split. Mixed effects of Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford, as a Snell Exhibitioner. Naming Adam Smith does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1740-07-07 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Adam Smith: https://factrail.ai/people/adam-smith

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith
- https://www.ox.ac.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-balliol-1740