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

Date: 1764

## The fact

In early 1764 Smith demitted the Glasgow chair to take Townshend’s private tutorship. [Adam Smith](/people/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. Do not merge this with the Buccleuch tour’s improving educational path. 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. The university lost a teacher; a ducal household gained one.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [income-inequality](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

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/; University of Glasgow). Independent: Britannica — Adam Smith leaves Glasgow 1764 (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 Glasgow — Smith’s resignation of the chair (https://www.gla.ac.uk/; University of Glasgow). Independent carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith leaves Glasgow 1764 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: University of Glasgow — Smith’s resignation of the chair (https://www.gla.ac.uk/; University of Glasgow).

## Significance

Worsening income-inequality path: a public chair converted into aristocratic private tuition. Medium confidence on unique harm. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated move from public chair to aristocratic private tuition is a patronage-and-inequality heading, distinct from the tour’s educational content. 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. Do not merge this with the Buccleuch tour’s improving educational path. Office-exit and tour-content are different rows. Mixed effects of Smith demits the Glasgow moral-philosophy chair for a private tutorship are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

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

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

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

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-resign-glasgow-1764