Alexander Chalmers

He was educated as a doctor, but gave up this profession for journalism, and he was for some time editor of the Morning Herald. Besides editions of the works of Shakespeare, Beattie[?], Fielding, Johnson, Warton, Pope, Gibbon, Bolingbroke[?], he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 vols.(1812-1817); a Glossary to Shakspeare (1707); an edition of Steevens's Shakespeare (1809); and the British Essayists, beginning with the Tatler and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.