Ephraim Chambers ( c 1680 - 1740 )

Birth: Kendal, England (c 1680) Death: 15 May 1740 Burial: The cloisters of Westminster Abbey Author, publisher, editor, translator 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.