MacVey Napier

MacVey Napier (born April 11, 1776, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scot.—died Feb. 11, 1847, Edinburgh) was a Scottish lawyer, first professor of conveyancing at the University of Edinburgh, who was an innovative editor of the Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions of Encyclopædia Britannica and editor of the 7th edition. Napier studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities. Apprenticed to a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet (lawyers), he became the society’s librarian...