William Strahan (publisher)
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William Strahan was a Scottish printer and publisher, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between from 1774 to 1784. He was a correspondent and later a good friend of Benjamin Franklin.
William Strahan (Mason Chamberlin)
Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 5 July 1775, severing friendship
Adam Smith
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Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by many as the "father of economics", or
William Strahan (publisher)
…Johnson's chief publisher, being entrusted with the printing of Johnson's Dictionary, and also published the works of the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, and the historian Edward Gibbon. Prominent 18th-century Freemason William Preston had attended the same school as Strahan in Edinburgh and was employed…
Posthumous Muir portrait, c. 1800
François Quesnay, one of the leaders of the physiocratic school of thought
David Hume was a friend and contemporary of Smith's.
Portrait of Smith by John Kay, 1790