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ALEXANDER CHALMERS (1759-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:CHALMERS (1759-1834)  , Scottish writer, was See also:born in See also:Aberdeen on the 29th of See also:March 1759 . He was educated as a See also:doctor, but gave up this profession for journalism, and he was for some See also:time editor of the See also:Morning See also:Herald . Besides See also:editions of the See also:works of See also:Shakespeare, See also:Beattie, See also:Fielding, See also:Johnson, See also:Warton, See also:Pope, See also:Gibbon, See also:Bolingbroke, he published A See also:General See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary in 32 vols.(1812-1817); a Glossary to Shakspeare (1797); an edition of See also:Steevens's Shakespeare (18c9); and the See also:British Essayists, beginning with the Taller and ending with the Observer, with biographical and See also:historical prefaces and a general See also:index . He died in See also:London on the 19th of See also:December 1834 .

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