Editing Colin Macfarquhar (section)

== Biography ==
Macfarquhar was born in [[Edinburgh]] to his father James Macfarquhar who was a [[wigmaker]] and his mother Margaret.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> His formal education ended when he was apprenticed to a printing firm and achieved the status of a master printer in 1767.<ref name=":1" /> On 13 December 1767 Macfarquhar married Jane whose father, James Scruton, was an [[accountant]] in [[Glasgow]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> Macfarquhar and Jane had one son and four daughters.<ref name=":2" />

Macfarquhar opened a printing shop in [[Edinburgh]] one or two years after getting married.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Kafker|first=Frank A.|date=2008-10-01|title=The achievement of Andrew Bell and Colin Macfarquhar as the first publishers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica|journal=Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies|language=en|volume=18|issue=2|pages=139–152|doi=10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00185.x|issn=1754-0194}}</ref> The first edition of Britannica was sold at his printing office in Nicolson Street.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colin-Macfarquhar|title=Colin Macfarquhar {{!}} Scottish printer|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-07-13|language=en}}</ref> Macfarquhar also contributed heavily to the second and third editions of Britannica.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | entry = Bell, Andrew | year = 2004 | title-link = Oxford Diionary of National Biography }}</ref>