Person Chambers; Ephraim (c 1680 - 1740); author and encyclopaedist Chambers Ephraim author and encyclopaedist c 1680 - 1740 British Male Kendal, England c 1680 15 May 1740 17400515 Burial: The cloisters of Westminster Abbey

Gray's Inn, London

Author 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 Son of a farmer at Kendal; married Fellow 06/11/1729 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'Cyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of the Arts qnd sciences' 1728, two volumes [Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary is its lineal descendant] c 1680 - 15 May 1740 NA7388 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 198152da-cbe1-4249-a875-3a05e247ce53