William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician Kickboxer Saturday 3rd April 1965

Saturday 3rd April 1965

Stone stall and font in All Saints Church

A 19th century version based on a 15th century original found in the collection of M Quedeville

'Honouring a Bill - and a Tom'

William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician Kickboxer Saturday 3rd April 1965William Chambers of Glenormiston, Scottish publisher and politician, c1890. Together with his younger brother, Robert, Chambers (1800 1883) was a successful publisher of books of Scottish interest. In 1859 they produced the first edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.