Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… networks and becoming part of the republic of letters. In 1764, for example, Adam Smith resigned his chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University to act as Henry Scott, 3 rd duke of Buccleuch’s Grand Tour tutor until 1766. In doing … to the many motivations and reasons to travel in this period. 9 . Donald Winch, ‘Smith, Adam (bap. 1723, d. 1790), moral philosopher and political economist’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. The eighteenth century saw a …
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