The place of Thomas Chalmers in Scottish political economy A . M . C . WATERMAN

Thomas Chalmers was born in Anstruther, Fife, in 1780, the sixth of fourteen children. He was educated at the parochial school until the age of twelve, when he enrolled at the University of St Andrews. In 1795 he became a divinity student, graduated in 1798, was licensed to preach the gospel in 1799, and in 1802 ordained in the Church of Scotland. He served in the parish ministry, first at Kilmany, then in Glasgow until 1823. In that year he became Professor of Moral Philosophy at his alma mater. Thereafter he occupied Chairs in divinity, first at the University of Edinburgh, then at New College until his death in Edinburgh in 1847.