Author Chambers Robert

he restoration of St Giles Cathedral. Not far away, a statue was erected in his memory, in Chambers Street. In the beginning of 1832 William Chambers started a weekly publication under the title of Chambers's "Edinburgh Journal" (known since 1854 as "Chambers's Journal of Literature, Science and Arts"[2]), which speedily attained a large circulation and to which his younger brother Robert Chambers was at first only a contributor. After fourteen volumes had appeared, Robert became associated with his brother as joint editor, and his collaboration may have contributed more than anything else to the success of the Journal. The two brothers also united as partners in the publishing book publishing firm of W. & R. Chambers Publishers, though it is unclear as to when and by what name, (who owned it as distinct from Williams publishing house initially since Williams' 1819 company far antedates Roberts billing as an co-editor (much less co-publisher) and which was to become (only in the ninties) Chambers Harrap Publishers after over a century (nearer two) in business. Among the other numerous works of which Robert was in whole or in part the author, the Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (4 vols., Glasgow, 1832–1835), the Cyclopædia of English Literature (1844), the Life and Works of Robert Burns (4 vols., 1851), Ancient Sea Margins (1848), the Domestic Annals of Scotland (1859–1861) and the Book of Days (2 vols., 1862–1864) were the most important. He was played by Christopher Lee in the 2005 feature film Greyfriars Bobby.