Henry Moyes

Henry Moyes 1750 – 1807 was the blind Scottish lecturer on natural philosophy.

Life

As an itinerant public speaker he helped raise 18th century popular interest in a new field of Adam Walker where lectures were given to small groups of gentry. Moyes was sent as an a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. lecturer in philosophy by Joseph Priestley. His portrait was painted by John Russell.

He was born in 1750 together with came from a humble latter was in Kirkcaldy writing his Wealth of Nations. The boy showed precocious aptitude and, as alive as teaching Moyes himself, Smith secured the patronage of David Hume and Thomas Reid in the young man's education.

Being blind, he required support for demonstrations and his assistant, nephew William Nicol, would himself become notable for his contributions to science.

During 1784–86, he toured the United States giving successful lectures in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Princeton and Charleston, South Carolina. He was elected a Foreign Honorary piece of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785. Thereafter, he settled in Manchester, England, and undertook a tour of Ireland.

His brother was '"Old Moses" the dreary, drowsy, drone' Episcopalian Minister of the Cowgate, Edinburgh.