George Chalmers (antiquarian)

George Chalmers (* 1742 in Fochabers, Scotland, † May 31 1825 in London ) was an English political writer.

Life

Chalmers studied in Celtic and Edinburgh jurisprudence. Then he emigrated to America, where he worked as a lawyer for about a year in Baltimore. At the outbreak of the War of Independence (1776 ), he returned to England and was employed by the Department of Commerce.

He published numerous works on the political situation in the U.S. and in the UK.

Works

• Political annals of the united colonies From Their settlement till 1763rd 2 vols Boston 1845
• An estimate of the comparative strength of Great Britain. 2 vols 1810
• Biographies of Daniel Defoe (1790)
• Thomas Ruddiman (1794 )
• Allan Ramsay (1806 )
• David Lyndsay (1806 )
• Thomas Churchyard
• James Stewart
• Thomas Paine (published under the pseudonym Francis Oldys )

• Caledonia. Historical and Geographical Description of Britain, of which three of the planned four volumes were completed ( London 1807-1824 )
• Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. 3 vols 1822