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Born 1745?
Died April 2, 1793 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Founder “Encyclopædia Britannica”
William Smellie
William Smellie
Scottish publisher and scientist
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
MacVey Napier.
MacVey Napier
Scottish lawyer and editor
Charles Maclaren
Scottish journalist and editor
James Tytler
James Tytler
Scottish editor
Mortimer Adler,1989
Mortimer J. Adler
American philosopher and educator
Robert McHenry
American author and editor
Walter Yust.
Walter Yust
American editor
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Archibald Constable
Scottish publisher
Bell, Andrew
Andrew Bell
Scottish publisher
Benton, William
William Benton
United States senator and publisher
Horace Everett Hooper
Horace Everett Hooper
American publisher
Clifton Fadiman
American editor
Hugh Chisholm.
Hugh Chisholm
British editor
Franklin Henry Hooper
American editor
John V. Dodge
American editor
Thomas Spencer Baynes
British scholar and editor
Thomas Stewart Traill
Scottish editor
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