John_Rae_(biographer)

John Rae (biographer)

John Rae (biographer)

Scottish journalist and biographer

John Rae (1845 – 1915) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. The long-time editor of The Contemporary Review, and contributor to The British Quarterly Review, he became famous for his 1895 biography of Adam Smith, Life of Adam Smith, which replaced the Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith of 1811, by Dugald Stewart, as the standard Smith reference.[1]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. [1]
    Rae, John (1895). Life of Adam Smith. London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Retrieved 14 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.

References

  • Rae: a journalist out of his depth, by Aaron B. Fuller, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, November 2003


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