Authorised form of name | Chambers; Ephraim (c 1680 - 1740) |
Dates | c 1680 - 1740 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Kendal, England |
Date of birth | c 1680 |
Date of death | 15 May 1740 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: The cloisters of Westminster Abbey |
Occupation | Author, publisher, editor, translator |
Activity | Education: Kendal grammar school; apprenticed to John Senex (FRS 1728), the map and globe maker Career: Compiled a 'Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' which impressed Henry Beighton (FRS 1720), went into five editions and inspired the work of Diderot and D'Alembert; travelled to France. Freemason, passible (as E. Chambers) WM, 1730, Lodge No 55, at Red Lion, Red Lion Street, Richmond, London
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/11/1729 |
Relationships | Son of a farmer at Kendal; married |
PublishedWorks | 'Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of the Arts qnd sciences' 1728, two volumes [Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary is its lineal descendant] |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Taylor Hanoverian References: Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1740), p.262. J L Heilbron, 'Information technology. Encyclopaedic visions. Scientific dictionaries and the Enlightenment culture by R Yeo' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 111-112 The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, ;Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' (2010), page 19 Notes: Proposed by William Jones; Sir Hans Sloane; a Secretary |
Code | NA7388 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
NLB/39/341 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to S A Moor | 6 January 1909 |