George Smeaton was a 19th century Scottish theologian ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland at Falkland in the Presbytery of Cupar (1839). He was among the numerous ministers who emerged in 1843 during the Disruption to form the Free Church of Scotland. Smeaton was a contemporary of such men as Robert Murray McCheyne and Andrew and Horatius Bonar. He was appointed professor at the Free Church College in Aberdeen (1854), and later became the Professor of Exegetical Theology at New College, Edinburgh (1857). Among his significant writings are The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by Christ Himself (1868), The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles (1870), The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (1882), and The Scottish Theory of Ecclesiastical Establishments (1875).
