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Born March 17, 1780 • Scotland
Died May 30, 1847 (aged 67) • Edinburgh • Scotland

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Thomas Chalmers, detail from an oil painting by Sir John Watson Gordon, c. 1837; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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