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Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship

In early 1764 Smith demitted the Glasgow chair to take Townshend’s private tutorship. Adam Smith’s documented role is: He left a public university chair for a pensioned private tutorship arranged by Townshend. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship
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In early 1764 Smith demitted the Glasgow chair to take Townshend’s private tutorship. Adam Smith’s documented role is: He left a public university chair for a pensioned private tutorship arranged by Townshend. The university lost a teacher; a ducal household gained one. Office-exit and tour-content are different rows. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Adam Smith's documented role is: He left a public university chair for a pensioned private tutorship arranged by Townshend.

Context

A pension for life was part of the bargain. Students at Glasgow lost a celebrated professor. Patronage is not unique embezzlement. Mixed effects belong on the tour’s improving path; this path is the inequality of private ducal tuition versus a public chair. Named others on the file: Charles Townshend as patron, Glasgow Senate, and unnamed students share the demission. The public setting is the file around 1764-01-10. The instrument stays Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship. The setting of Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship is the public file around 1764-01-10. Driver income-inequality is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Medium confidence on unique harm. Welfare reading worsening. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Adam Smith

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He left a public university chair for a pensioned private tutorship arranged by Townshend. The university lost a teacher; a ducal household gained one.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSmith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 10 January 1764 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.University of Glasgow — Smith professorship heritageUniversity of Glasgow · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Adam SmithEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Glasgow heritage and Britannica independently date the 1764 chair resignation as an office exit. Official: University of Glasgow — Smith’s resignation of the chair (https://www.gla.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab); University of Glasgow). Independent: Britannica — Adam Smith leaves Glasgow 1764 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab); 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 Glasgow — Smith’s resignation of the chair (https://www.gla.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab); University of Glasgow). Independent carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith leaves Glasgow 1764 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: 1764 demission of the Glasgow chair. Not established: a unique enrolment collapse series. Established: a sourced public record of Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship under 1764-01-10.

Shared responsibility is part of Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship. Naming Adam Smith does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1764-01-10 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.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAdam Smith
  2. contributed toFactSmith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-resign-glasgow-1764

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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