 | Macvey Napier (born Napier Macvey) FRSE FRS WS (11 April 1776 – 11 February 1847) was a Scottish solicitor, legal scholar, and an editor of the Encyclopædia... 7 KB (632 words) - 19:25, 8 March 2024 |
critical journal, Volume 50, Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Henry Reeve, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Arthur Ralph... 3 KB (303 words) - 07:20, 3 February 2024 |
were again recruited through friendships of the chief editors, notably Macvey Napier, others were attracted by the Britannica's reputation. The contributors... 127 KB (11,523 words) - 13:46, 31 March 2024 |
 | "Chivalry", "Romance", and "Drama". To edit the supplement, Constable hired Macvey Napier, who recruited other eminent contributors such as Sir Humphry Davy,... 96 KB (12,836 words) - 04:38, 8 April 2024 |
 | review: or critical journal – Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Harold Cox, Henry Reeve... 51 KB (5,668 words) - 18:09, 15 April 2024 |
 | McCartney, Labour politician John Meikle, recipient of the Victoria Cross Macvey Napier, solicitor and editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica Billy Rankin, guitarist... 37 KB (3,744 words) - 17:05, 9 April 2024 |
| review: or critical journal – Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, William Empson, Harold Cox, Henry Reeve... 72 KB (8,021 words) - 12:42, 18 April 2024 |
politician from Kentucky Macvey Napier (1776–1847), Scottish lawyer, editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica Margaret Brisbane, 5th Lady Napier (died 1706), Scottish... 14 KB (1,736 words) - 13:02, 19 June 2023 |
from 1848 to 1850. At least two of Macvey Napier's sons lived in Singapore in its early days. David Skene Napier, a merchant, was one of the first magistrates... 8 KB (584 words) - 17:30, 2 August 2023 |
 | 1852) April 6 – Jesse Bledsoe, American politician (d. 1836) April 11 Macvey Napier, Scottish legal scholar, one of the editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica... 49 KB (5,282 words) - 11:57, 10 April 2024 |
 | Paper size Photo print sizes Sydney Smith; Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey; Macvey Napier; William Empson; George Cornewall (1843), The Edinburgh Review, London:... 18 KB (2,193 words) - 09:43, 4 December 2022 |
 | ninety-eighth number, published in June 1829, when he resigned in favour of Macvey Napier. Jeffrey's own contributions numbered two hundred, all except six being... 15 KB (1,650 words) - 05:22, 2 January 2024 |
 | "Introduction", Hazlitt, Letters, p. 11, and Hazlitt's own letter to Macvey Napier on 2 April 1816: "I confess I am apt to be paradoxical in stating an... 133 KB (20,122 words) - 03:14, 4 March 2024 |
antiquary and engraver Macvey Napier (1776–1847), solicitor, legal scholar and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica Mark Napier (1798–1879), lawyer, biographer... 55 KB (6,226 words) - 21:25, 12 April 2024 |
Matthews, socialite and younger sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales Macvey Napier, encyclopedist Mungo Park, explorer Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair... 130 KB (12,333 words) - 18:19, 7 April 2024 |
 | 'beast man' could have done this part so well." On 10 April he contacted Macvey Napier, editor of the Edinburgh Review, who quickly accepted the offer. Sedgwick... 65 KB (8,181 words) - 22:28, 22 March 2024 |
songwriter and collector Bill Napier (b. 1940), novelist and science writer James Napier (1810–1884), antiquary and chemist Macvey Napier (1776–1847), solicitor... 66 KB (7,475 words) - 19:40, 6 April 2024 |
 | 1852) April 6 – Jesse Bledsoe, American politician (d. 1836) April 11 Macvey Napier, Scottish legal scholar, one of the editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica... 4 KB (36,401 words) - 12:52, 17 November 2023 |
 | Niebuhr's Römische Geschichte. The editor of the Edinburgh Review, Macvey Napier, chose another writer to review the second volume, which infuriated... 32 KB (4,236 words) - 05:52, 1 April 2024 |
of the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica working with Macvey Napier, to which he contributed a large number of articles. In the 1830s he... 3 KB (325 words) - 17:40, 6 February 2024 |
 | Society of Edinburgh and served as president in 1842. In 1847 he replaced Macvey Napier as main Editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1852–61) and was creator... 10 KB (1,003 words) - 16:15, 21 January 2024 |
 | the copyright of the Encyclopædia Britannica, along with co-investors Macvey Napier and James Browne LLD. In this capacity he became publisher of the esteemed... 8 KB (527 words) - 16:46, 3 November 2023 |
 | George Moir (1800–1870), lawyer and essayist John Shank More (1784–1861) Macvey Napier (1776–1847) Margaret Outram (1778–1863), widow of Benjamin Outram Bouverie... 17 KB (1,262 words) - 02:24, 8 March 2024 |
March – Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto, politician (died 1848) 11 April – Macvey Napier, lawyer and encyclopedia editor (died 1847) 12 April – Henry Hobhouse... 13 KB (1,375 words) - 23:49, 29 February 2024 |
 | Laing was elected to be Librarian of the Signet Library replacing Macvey Napier, a post he retained until his death. Apart from general bibliographical... 4 KB (515 words) - 18:24, 1 June 2023 |
Begg, Scottish stockbroker and politician (died 1926) 11 February – Macvey Napier, lawyer and encyclopaedia editor (born 1776) 13 February – Sharon Turner... 17 KB (1,755 words) - 00:10, 1 March 2024 |
York William Macmichael (1784–1839), physician John Maddy (1766–1853) Macvey Napier (1776–1847), legal scholar Gore Ouseley (1770–1844), diplomat Henry... 2 KB (193 words) - 05:05, 5 March 2022 |
Cabinet Cyclopaedia. p. 36. Sydney Smith; Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey; Macvey Napier; William Empson; George Cornewall Lewis; Henry Reeve; Arthur Ralph Douglas... 25 KB (1,430 words) - 05:17, 17 November 2023 |
 | to the editorship of the Edinburgh Review in 1847, on the death of Macvey Napier. On 27 June 1838, Empson married Charlotte Jeffrey (b. 1814), daughter... 3 KB (390 words) - 02:34, 22 November 2022 |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1814. His proposers were George Dunbar, Macvey Napier, Rev David Ritchie and Alexander Christison. In 1814 he is noted as... 6 KB (639 words) - 10:28, 4 August 2023 |