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Adam Smith
Adam Smith, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Adam Smith attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford for six years.12
After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1740, Smith traveled to Oxford on a scholarship known as the Snell Exhibition. He spent his time there largely engaged in self-education, as he found the academic environment less stimulating than that of Glasgow.12