Tim Waterstone
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Tim Waterstone (born 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland) is the chairman of the HMV Media Group plc, which includes the United Kingdom bookselling retail chain Waterstone's which he founded. It is now the largest specialist bookseller in the UK and also has stores in Europe and Ireland.
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[edit] Early life and career
He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English. He then went to India where he worked for a broking firm in Calcutta and contracted Typhus. Upon his recovery and return to England he worked as a marketing manager for Allied Breweries and then W.H.Smith, he lost his job there after 8 years and opened his own bookshop in 1982.
[edit] Waterstone's
See main article; Waterstone's
Tim waterstone has had three marriages to date and 8 children
[edit] Author
He has written 3 novels and many published articles.
