John Timbs

John Timbs (17 August 1801 – 6 March 1875), English antiquary, was born in Clerkenwell, London.

He was educated at a private school at Hemel Hempstead, and in his sixteenth year apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession.

He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, The Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Works

Some of these were published under the pseudonym, Horace Welby. As can be seen, his work continued to be re-edited and republished well after his death.[1]

One of his major works is Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis; with nearly Fifty Years' Personal Recollections (London, David Bogue, 1855, 800 pages).

References

  1. ^ Library of Congress catalog
  2. ^ Curiosities of London (1855), books.google.com, accessed 10 March 2009
  1.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Timbs, John". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
  2.  "Timbs, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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