Alexander Chalmers

(1759-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chalmers, Alexander, 1759-1834 NRA: Chalmers, Alexander (1759-1834) Writer DNB: Chalmers, Alexander (1759-1834), biographer and literary editor LBT ID: AlChalm1834 VIAF ID: 13390034 LOC ID: n90655549	B/BAP: 1759-03-29 DIED: 1834-12-10
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Scottish-born man of letters; educated at Marischal College, he produced editions of the British Essayists (1802-1803), the English Poets (1810), and compiled the General Biographical Dictionary (1812-1817).
REFERENCES TO Alexander Chalmers: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Mr. Hazlitt’s Letter to Mr. Gifford (Concluded)” in The Examiner (14 March 1819) 171-73 Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 95 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Found 1: ¶ 9 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1825-27 Found 1: ¶ 1