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Re: SHOE: QUERY--Request for help on calendar
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Sumitra Shah

James Buchan states that Adam Smith was baptised 
on 5 June, 1723, on p 12, “Adam Smith and the 
pursuit of perfect liberty”, Profile Books, 
London (the authoritative edition from the 
original publisher; perhaps it’s a US Norton’s misprint).

I would have been very surprised if James Buchan 
had stated  any other date; he is a conscientious and thorough scholar.

See also the definitive biography by Ian Simpson 
Ross, The Life of Adam Smith, Oxford University 
Press, 1975, p 1:  ‘…Adam Smith’s  baptism on 5 June, 1723…’

Wikipedia is notoriously unreliable.   The date ‘16 June 1723’ is spurious.

Gavin Kennedy

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