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1) Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, where Gordon Brown is currently the MP.
2) As a baby, Adam Smith was briefly kidnapped before being rescued by his uncle.
3) While some people have complained about a Scot being on an English banknote, the Bank of England was founded by a Scot, Sir William Paterson, in 1694.
4) Adam Smith was widely believed to have abandoned Christianity in favour of deism, a religious philosophy that rejects miracles and other supernatural events.
5) Adam Smith came up with the widely-used term "the invisible hand of the market".
6) Adam Smith was an abolitionist and questioned the long-term economic benefits of slavery.
7) Adam Smith never married and lived with his mother until she died, only six years before he passed away in 1790.
8) The Wealth of Nations has been cited by many people as their favourite book. Journalist Andrew Neil and businessman Sir Stanley Kalms are among those to have chosen to take it with them to a desert island.
9) The poet Robert Burns was a huge admirer of Adam Smith, writing of The Wealth of Nations that "I could not have given any mere man credit for half the intelligence Mr Smith discovers in his book".
10) Although The Wealth of Nations is by far the best-known of Adam Smith's works today, it was an earlier work - The Theory of Moral Sentiments - which made his name during his lifetime. A treatise which argued that people were born with a sense of right and wrong, and of how to behave towards others, it sold out in weeks.
Comments below please.
The changes to the front were even more controversial.
revrobuk (16-03-2007 09:09:39)
garethwi (16-03-2007 08:25:09)
And don't forget Father Abraham, who is still going strong over here, but using his real name, and not his Smurf moniker.
Devil's Advocaat (14-03-2007 19:14:46)
garethwi (14-03-2007 14:09:52)
It's still better than the Dutch, who are so strapped for famous people they have 2-Unlimited on their notes.

garethwi (18-03-2007 19:34:04)