CHALMERS, ALEXANDER (1759-1834), Scottish writer, was born in Aberdeen on March 29, 1759, and died in London on Dec. 19, 1834. He was educated as a doctor, but gave up this profession for journalism, and he was for some time editor of the Morning Herald. Besides editions of the works of Shakespeare, Beattie, Fielding, Johnson, Warton, Pope, Gibbon and Bolingbroke, he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 vols. (1812-17) ; a Glossary to Shakespeare (1797) ; an edi tion of Steeven's Shakespeare (1809) ; and the British Essayists, beginning with the Tatler and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index.