Colin_MacFarquhar
Colin Macfarquhar
Scottish bookseller and printer
Colin Macfarquhar (1744 or 1745? – 2 April 1793 or May 1793, Edinburgh?, Scotland)[1][2] was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768.[3][4] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.[1]