# Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Date: 1767

## The fact

On 21 May 1767 [Adam Smith](/people/adam-smith) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. The dated fellowship is not the 1783 Edinburgh Royal Society and not the 1787 Glasgow rectorship. Adam Smith’s documented role is: He was elected FRS after the continental tour. The Society admitted; he did not found it. Do not twin this with the 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh. London FRS is a different corporation. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Adam Smith's documented role is: He was elected FRS after the continental tour. The Society admitted; he did not found it.

## Context

He was then writing in Kirkcaldy after the tour. A fellowship is not unique authorship of the Society’s experiments. Later FRSE is a neighbouring honour. Named others on the file: Proposing fellows, the Royal Society’s admitting meeting, and later biographical compilers share the heading. The public setting is the file around 1767-05-21. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The setting of Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is the public file around 1767-05-21. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh. London FRS is a different corporation. Mixed effects of Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Royal Society heritage and Britannica independently date the 1767 FRS election. Official: Royal Society — Adam Smith FRS heritage (https://royalsociety.org/; The Royal Society). Independent: Britannica — Adam Smith, honours (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: Royal Society — Adam Smith FRS heritage (https://royalsociety.org/; The Royal Society). Independent carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith, honours (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Royal Society — Adam Smith FRS heritage (https://royalsociety.org/; The Royal Society).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: learned-society fellowship. Direct on the election. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated London scientific-society fellowship placed the Glasgow professor inside a public learned corporation. 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 improving.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: FRS 21 May 1767. Not established: that he uniquely directed London science. Established: a sourced public record of Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under 1767-05-21. Established: a sourced public record of Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under 1767-05-21.

Shared responsibility is part of Smith is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Naming Adam Smith does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1767-05-21 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

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

## Sources

- https://royalsociety.org/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-frs-1767