It appears that the President for 1923: Sir John Russell, was not originally going to be the GA President.
In Autumn 2021, this announcement went into 'The Geographical Teacher'
Source: “Editorial.” The Geographical Teacher, vol. 11, no. 3, 1921, pp. 131–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40555625. Accessed 11 Apr. 2021
I came across this while looking for a little more information on Robert Cecil's speech as President, as my own is scheduled to take place 100 years after his and I wanted to refer to it as I remember it had quite an interesting opening line....
It turns out that the President elect was replaced .
So who was The Very Rev Principal Sir George Adam Smith MA LLD DBA?
It turns out he was a Scottish theologian.
The GA had previously had President(s) with this interest and specialism.
He was born in Calcutta in 1856, where his father was Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras. By 1870 the family had returned to Scotland and were living at Scagore House in Edinburgh.
He was educated at Edinburgh in the Royal High School.
He then studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and the New College, graduating MA in 1875.
After studying for summer semesters as a postgraduate at the University of Tübingen (1876) and the University of Leipzig (1878) and travelling in Egypt and Syria. He was ordained into the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 and served at the Queen's Cross Free Church in Aberdeen.
In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament subjects in the Free Church College at Glasgow.
In 1909 he was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, a post he held until his retirement in 1935. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1916, and was knighted in the same year.
He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1916-17. In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His main work was the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1894, followed by 25 editions), which proved immensely popular as the best-written and most scholarly account of the subject. He had a profound understanding of the permanent geographical factors and their influence on history.
He also prepared an Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915, 1936)
He also prepared an Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1915, 1936)
Publications
The Book of Isaiah (2 vols)
The Book of the Twelve Prophets (2 vols)
Modern Criticism and Preaching of the Old Testament
The Forgiveness of Sins
Four Psalms
The Life of Henry Drummond
The Book of the Twelve Prophets (2 vols)
Modern Criticism and Preaching of the Old Testament
The Forgiveness of Sins
Four Psalms
The Life of Henry Drummond
References
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- I wonder if the answer lies in here.
A book on his life:
If anyone is able to shed any light on the mystery please get in touch as always. He would have been 67 in 1923 so did was he perhaps ill? He didn't die until 1942.
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