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FINDLATER, ANDREW (1810—,885)

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FINDLATER, See also:ANDREW (1810—,885) , Scottish editor, was See also:born in 1810 near See also:Aberdour, See also:Aberdeenshire, the son of a small See also:farmer. By hard study in the evening, after his See also:day's See also:work on the See also:farm was finished, he qualified himself for entrance at See also:Aberdeen University, and after graduating as M.A. he attended the Divinity classes with the See also:idea of entering the See also:ministry. In 1853 he began that connexion with the See also:firm of W. & R. See also:Chambers which gave direction to his subsequent activity. His first engagement was the editing of a revised edition of their See also:Information for the See also:People (1857). In this capacity he gave See also:evidence of qualities and acquirements that marked him as a suitable editor for Chambers's See also:Encyclopaedia, then projected, and his was the directing mind that gave it its See also:character. Many of the more important articles were written by him. This work occupied him till 1868, and he afterwards edited a revised edition (,874). He also had See also:charge of other publications for the same firm, and wrote regularly for the Scotsman. In 1864 he was made LL.D. of Aberdeen University. In 1877 he gave up active work for Chambers, but his services were retained as consulting editor.

He died in See also:

Edinburgh on the 1st of See also:January 1885.

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