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Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834)
Chalmers, Alexander. A Scotch writer; born in Aberdeen, Scotland, March 29, 1759; died in London, Dec. 10, 1834. He is famous as the author of a General Biographical Dictionary, in thirty-two volumes (1812–17). Edited Johnson’s ‘British Poets’ and a valuable collection of British Essayists, in forty-five volumes.