CHAMBERS, David, a Scotch historian, priest, and lawyer, was born about the year 1530. He was educated in the university of Aberdeen, and afterwards went to France and Italy. At Bologna, in 1556, he was a pupil of Mariannus Sozenus.
After his return to Scotland, he was appointed by Queen Mary parson of Suddy and chancellor of Ross. He was soon afterwards employed in digesting the laws of Scotland, and was engaged in 1566 in publishing the acts of the Scottish parliament by authority. He was also appointed one of the lords of session, and continued faithful to the interests of the queen till her adherents were obliged to seek refuge in other kingdoms. Chambers went to Spain, where he was received by Philip; and thence to Paris, where he was welcomed by Charles IX., to whom, in 1572, he presented his History of Scotland. He died at Paris in the year 1592.
He wrote Histoire abrégée de tous les Roys de France, Angleterre, et Ecosse; La recherche des Singularités plus remarquable concernant le Etat d'Ecosse; et a Discours de la légitime succession des Femmes.