Macvey Napier (1776–1847): Literary Man of Parts

Abstract

EDITOR, author, lecturer, lawyer, legal administrator, librarian: Napier was each of these. In the first capacity he was best known; in the last, least. Educated with a view to becoming a lawyer, he was admitted Writer to the Signet in 1799; became librarian to the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet in 1805; lecturer in Conveyancing at Edinburgh University in 1816 (later Professor); editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1813, and of the Edinburgh Review in 1829; and Principal Clerk of Session in 1837.

Citation

Ballantyne, G.H. (1976), "Macvey Napier (1776–1847): Literary Man of Parts", Library Review, Vol. 25 No. 8, pp. 315-318. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012643