page_title: James Menteath
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: James Menteath / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tower of Closeburn Castle, Scotland, taken by me during the summer of 2000.
context_page_description: Rev James Menteath, in later life James Stuart Menteath of Closeburn was a Scottish clergyman of the Church of England, and friend of Adam Smith.
context_section_description: In 1783 Menteath purchased Closeburn Castle in Dumfriesshire, from Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick. On his moving north in 1785, Adam Smith wrote to Menteath describing him as his oldest friend, outside his extended family. They knew each other from Kirkcaldy, in Fifeshire and Smith's home in early life.
  Menteath died 15 July 1802.
caption: Closeburn Castle, a tower house in the Scottish Borders, today
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