George Smeaton (theologian)

[1] From around 1835 he operated as an urban missionary in North Leith, the harbour area of Edinburgh.

[4] He served as professor of theology at the Free Church College in Aberdeen from 1854 to 1857, and then as Professor of New Testament Exegesis at New College, Edinburgh from 1857 until his death.

[5] He died at home, 13 South Mansionhouse Road[6] in Edinburgh on 14 April 1889 and is buried in the Grange Cemetery with his wife Janet Helen Goold (d. 1893).

[7] She was sister to Rev William Henry Goold.

William Smeaton emigrated to New Zealand and worked as an editor.