b. 16 April 1800. d. 20 May 1883. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Publisher, editor, and author. Pseudonym: “W. C.” Born in Peebles. One of the most
commercially successful publishers in the nineteenth century. Co-edited *Chambers’s
Edinburgh Journal* with his brother Robert Chambers. Involved with housing and sanitary
improvements in Edinburgh, and was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1865. Biographical
information: *ODNB*. (AC)