Robert Chambers Jr.

In 1874, on the resignation of James Payn, he became editor of Chambers's Journal; he occasionally contributed papers, and he conducted the magazine with great success.

On the death of his uncle William in 1883, the whole responsibility of the publishing house devolved upon him, but he was assisted during the last two or three years of his life by his eldest son, Charles Chambers.

He also assisted Alexander Ireland, in the preparation of the 1884 edition of his father's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, in which was given the first authoritative information of the authorship.

[3] Previously, Chambers had won the second Grand National Tournament held on the Old Course at St Andrews in 1858, when he beat Mr. Wallace of Leven in match play on the last hole.

[9] Almost as famous as his golf victories, is the time when Robert umpired the match between Old Tom Morris and Willie Park Sr. in 1870 at Musselburgh.

His eldest daughter Violet Tweedale (1862–1936) was a novelist and spiritualist, who became a friend of the famous Theosophist Helena Blavatsky.