George Chalmers

(1742-1825)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chalmers, George, 1742-1825 NRA: Chalmers, George (1742-1825), antiquary and public servant DNB: Chalmers, George (bap. 1742, d. 1825), antiquary and political writer LBT ID: GeChalm1825 VIAF ID: 32076090 LOC ID: n50036149	B/BAP: 1742-12-26 DIED: 1825-05-31
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Scottish antiquary ridiculed by Edmond Malone for defending Ireland's forgeries in An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspear Papers (1797).
REFERENCES TO George Chalmers: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Hookham Frere to John Murray, 4 May 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Murray to Walter Scott, 6 June 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 19 Chapter X 1800-02 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter III 1814 Found 1: ¶ 7 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 9: Ingratitude Found 1: ¶ 7 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 26 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XX. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 10