Chalmers, Alex c.1759-c.1834

Biography

Biographer and literary editor, was born on 29 March 1759 in Aberdeen and baptized that day at St Nicholas's in the city, the youngest son of James Chalmers (1713-1764) printer and publisher. His father founded the Aberdeen Journal, which he edited until his death; his grandfather was the Revd James Chalmers (d. 1744), professor of divinity at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Although he was regarded by some of his contemporaries as a retailer of minutiae and a booksellers' hack, Alexander Chalmers's extensive biographical and bibliographical research has been respected and cited by subsequent generations of students of British literature. 

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ESL 140, DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5026

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