William Chalmers
William Chalmers (1748-1811) was a Swedish merchant. He was born in Gothenburg in 1748 as the son of the Scottish merchant Williams Chalmers and his Swedish wife Inga Orre. He became a director of the Swedish East India Company and in 1783 he was appointed as their resident representative in Canton. He would stay there and in Macao for ten years before returning home. He died in Gothenburg in 1811 leaving in his will the bequest for an "Industrial School", which in 1829 became the Chalmers University of Technology.
