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ALEXANDER CHALMERS (1759-1834), Scottish writer, was born in Aberdeen on the 29th of March 1759. 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 (1797); an edition of Steevens's Shakespeare (1809); and the British Essayists, beginning with the Taller and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index. He died in London on the 1 9th of December 1834.