Sir Robert Chambers
Subtitle: law, literature, and empire in the age of Johnson
By: Thomas M. Curley.
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 698
Subjects: Chambers, Robert, Sir, 1737-1803; Law teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Judges -- India -- Biography; Law -- India -- History -- 18th century; Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Description: Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803) was a literary as well as a legal man. Friend and collaborator of Samuel Johnson, professor of English law at Oxford University, and one of the four judges on the first Supreme Court of India, Chambers was an enormously influential figure in the eighteenth-century British empire. This book is the first authoritative biography of Chambers and is also the first major contribution in decades to historical scholarship on Johnson.

It demonstrates Chambers's important role in early English legal education, in Samuel Johnson's life and political thinking, and in the formation of British India during a period of active cultural exchange between East and West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-661) and index.