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David Douglas Bannerman
(1842-1903)
Minister of the Free Church of Scotland
Born in Ormiston, Midlothian, David Bannerman was the eldest son of
the Rev James Patrick Bannerman and the grandson of David Douglas, Lord
Reston, the heir of the political economist and author of "The Wealth
of Nations", Adam Smith. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh
and New College, Edinburgh and was ordained at Dalkeith in 1869. For most
of his life he was minister of St Leonards Free Church of Scotland, Perth
wher he died and where he is buried.
During the period 1884-1894 Dr Bannerman presented to the Library
of New College, Edinburgh about one-third of Adam Smith's personal library.
This included a first edition of "An Inquiry into the Principles
of Political OEconomy", by Sir James Steuart Denham of Coltness
(2 volumes, London, 1767) whose manuscripts, including that of the Inquiry,
were gifted to the University Library in 1988 by Mrs
Katherine Fyfe, whose ancestors had inherited them on the death
in 1839 of Lieutenant-General Sir
James Steuart Denham of Coltness and Westshields .
In 1972 these books were transferred from New College Library to
the Main Library, where they joined a further 32 volumes from Adam Smith's library among the
library of Professor W. B. Hodgson. Portrait and biographical information by kind permission of Mrs Anne Fisher (née Bannerman)
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