Macvey Napier
1776–1847
Journal editor. Studied law at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. Admitted to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1799; librarian, 1805. Edited the supplement to the sixth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1814–24; seventh edition, completed 1842. Professor of conveyancing, Edinburgh University, 1824. Edited the Edinburgh Review, 1829–47.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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