Sir William Chambers

Sir William Chambers (1800-1883) was a Scottish publisher and politician, born at Peebles. He apprenticed to a bookseller in Edinburgh, and commenced business on his own account in a small way. He edited with his brother the "Gazetteer of Scotland". He started, in 1832, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal to meet a demand of the time for popular instruction in company with his brother founded a great printing and publishing establishment, from which there has issued a number of valuable works in the interest especially of the propagation of useful knowledge of all kinds. He was a distinguished Edinburgh citizen, and did much for the expansion and improvement of the city.

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