Macvey Napier (1776–1847)

Journal editor. Studied law at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. Admitted to the Society of Writers to the Signet, 1799; librarian, 1805. Edited the supplement to the sixth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1814–24; seventh edition, completed 1842. Professor of conveyancing, Edinburgh University, 1824. Edited the Edinburgh Review, 1829–47.