Robert Chambers

(1802-1871)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 NRA: Chambers, Robert (1802-1871), publisher and author DNB: Chambers, Robert (1802-1871), publisher and writer LBT ID: RoChamb1871 VIAF ID: 61590299 LOC ID: n82125817	B/BAP: 1802-07-10 DIED: 1871-03-17
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Scottish miscellaneous writer and journalist; his chief works are Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 2 vols (1841-43) and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844). He partnered with his brother William (1800-1883).
REFERENCES TO Robert Chambers: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1771-78 Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ n1 Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Carlyle to John Gibson Lockhart, 11 January 1842 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1: ¶ 26 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 36 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 7 July 1857 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Note to Chapter XV Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 18 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VII. Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 18 Leigh Hunt Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 35 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 19: 1828-48