Smith, William Robertson

LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1882), Free Church of Scotland; b. at Keig, Aberdeen shire, Nov. 8, 1846; educated at Aberdeen University (M.A., 1865), New College Edinburgh, and at Bonn and Gdttingen; was a istant to the chair of physics at Edinburgh, 1868-70; profe or of Hebrew in the Free-church College, Aberdeen, 1870-81, when he was removed by the General A embly on account of his alleged heretical teaching; and has been since a ociate editor of the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and was (1883-86) Lord Almoner's profe or of Arabic at Cambridge; since 1886, librarian to the university. He is the author of The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, London, 1881; The Prophets of Israel, and their Place in History to the Close of the Eighth Century B.C., 1882 (both reprinted, N.Y.); Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, 1885. *