Napier, MACVEY

Napier, MACVEY, born at Glasgow, 11th April 1776, was educated there and in Edinburgh, and in 1799 became a writer to the Signet, in 1805 Signet Librarian (which post he retained till 1837), and in 1824 first professor of Conveyancing. He edited the supplement to the fifth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (6 vols. 1816-24), and in 1829 succeeded Jeffrey as editor of the Edinburgh Review (q.v.). Among his contributors were Macaulay, Carlyle, J. S. Mill, Sir William Hamilton, and (alas for the editor!) Brougham. He died 11th February 1847. See his interesting Correspondence (1879).