page_title: James Menteath
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: James Menteath / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of England parish church of All Saints, Barrowby, Lincolnshire
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: Born at Burrowine, Perthshire (now in Fifeshire) around 1718, he was son of William Menteath of Burrowine. He matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1732. He then matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 9 April 1736, graduating B.A. 1739, M.A. 1742. He was supported there from 1736 by a Snell Exhibition, which he vacated in 1747.
caption: All Saints Church, Barrowby, today
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