biography
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| lived:
| (1800–83)
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| biography:
| Publisher and writer, born in Peebles, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He was apprenticed to a bookseller in Edinburgh (1814), and in 1819 went into business for himself. In 1832 he started Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, and soon after united with his brother Robert Chambers in founding the printing and publishing firm of W & R Chambers. As Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1865–9), he promoted a successful scheme for improving the older part of the city. Shortly before his death he received the offer of a baronetcy. |
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