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After working as editor of a newspaper in Edinburgh, and after an interval of rest rendered necessary by a breakdo ...first English-born editor of the ''Britannica''; all earlier editors were Scottish.

...rk in Edinburgh. In 1817, with others, he established ''[[The Scotsman]]'' newspaper in [[Edinburgh]] and at first acted as its editor. Offered a post as clerk [[Category:Scottish newspaper editors]]

'''James Browne''' (1793 – April 1841), [[Scotland|Scottish]] man of letters, was born at [[Whitefield, Perthshire|Whitefield]], [[Pert ...rçu sur les Hieroglyphes d'Egypte'' (Paris, 1827), a ''Vindication of the Scottish Bar from the Attacks of Mr. Broughton'', and ''History of the Highlands and

...cles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as the most sc Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher [[A & C Black]], [[Horace Everett Hooper]], [[Sears|Sears Roebuck

...s, Macfarquhar and Bell were inspired by the intellectual ferment of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]] and thought the time ripe for a new encyclopedia "compiled ...e time (1788–1798), together with an analogous supplement (1803), by the Scottish-born printer, [[Thomas Dobson]]. The first United States [[copyright]] law