Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smith, Rev. Professor David

SMITH, Rev. Professor David, M.A., D.D.; b. Carluke, Lanarkshire, 21 May, 1866; only surviving son of late George Smith, Glasgow and Carluke, and Jane Maria MacNaughton. Educ.: The Academy, Rothesay, Isle of Bute; The University, Glasgow: the Free Church College, Glasgow; Jeffrey Medallist, Blackstone Medallist, Sandford Greek Scholar, William Ewing Fellow at the University: grad. M.A. with 1st Honours (Classical) 1887; Stevenson Scholar (No. 1) as most distinguished entrant. Free Church College, 1887; George A. Clark Fellow and Classical Tutor in the University; travelled in Belgium, Rhineland, Holland. Ordained Free Church Minister of Tulliallan parish in 1894; translated to St. Andrew's United Free Church, Blairgowrie, in 1907, Honorary D.D. (Glas.) in 1908; Member of Blairgowrie School Board; appointed Professor of Theology in Magee College, Londonderry, in 1909; Bruce Lecturer in Glasgow U.F. College 1911: Smyth Lecturer (1911) and Carey Lecturer (1916) in Magee College; Lecturer at Southern Theological Seminary, Pittsburg, and at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, U.S.A., in 1912; appointed Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Belfast College of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. 1922. Pubns.: The Days of His Flesh (translated into Japanese); The Pilgrim's Hospice; St. Matthew in Westminster N.T.; The Face of Jesus; A Legend of Bethlehem; A Legend of Jerusalem; Man's Need of God; The Epistles of St. John in Expositor's Greek Testament; Christian Counsel; The Feast of the Covenant; The Historic Jesus (translated into Japanese); Unwritten Sayings of our Lord; To the Uttermost; The Atonement in the Light of History and the Modern Spirit; The Life and Letters of St. Paul; The Heavenly Visitant and other Sermons in Verse. Correspondence Column and other regular articles in British Weekly. Recns.: tricycle, carriage, books. Res.: Holyrood, University Road, Belfast.