George Smeaton

Rev Prof George Smeaton DD (1814 – 1889) was a Scottish theologian.

He was born on 8 April 1814.

He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland, but left in the Disruption of 1843 to become one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland. 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 until his death.

He died in Edinburgh on 14 April 1889 and is buried in the Grange Cemetery with his wife Janet Helen Goold.

Smeaton wrote The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by Christ Himself (1868), The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles (1870), and The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (1882).