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Chambers was founded as W. & R. Chambers Publishers by the two brothers William Chambers of Glenormiston and Robert Chambers. They were born into a rich, mill-owning family in Peebles in Scotland in 1800 and 1802 respectively, during the time of the war with France. The war impoverished the family and, in 1813, the family left Peebles for ...
Their publishing business prospered, and in 1846 William purchased the Glenormiston estate (near Peebles) from William Steuart. This house had been built by William Hunter in 1805. Chambers remodelled it in 1849, also adding many murals to the interior. [7] In 1859 Chambers founded a museum and art gallery in Peebles.
Robert Chambers FRSE FGS (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər z /; 10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) [2] was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles.
Robert Chambers FRSE (March 1832 – 23 March 1888) was a Scottish publisher, editor of Chambers' Journal, amateur golfer and encyclopaedist, the son of Robert Chambers, the co-founder of the W & R Chambers publishing house in Edinburgh.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859 [1] by William and Robert Chambers of Edinburgh and became one of the most important English language encyclopaedias of the 19th and 20th centuries, developing a reputation for accuracy and scholarliness that was reflected in other works produced by the Chambers publishing company. The encyclopaedia ...
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. [1] The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, [ 2 ] and priced at one penny . Topics included history, religion, language, and science.
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Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. [1] He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest .