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JOHN TIMBS (18os-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 981 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:TIMBS (18os-1875)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:Clerkenwell, See also:London, on the 17th of See also:August 18os . He was educated at a private school at Hemel Hempstead, and in his sixteenth See also:year apprenticed to a druggist and printer at See also:Dorking . He had See also:early shown See also:literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly See also:Magazine . A year later he became secretary to See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession . He was successively editor of the See also:Mirror of Literature, the See also:Harlequin, the Literary See also:World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London See also:News . He was also founder' and first editor of Year-See also:Book of See also:Science and See also:Art . His published See also:works amounted to more than one See also:hundred and fifty volumes . In 1834 he was elected a See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . He died in London on the 6th of See also:March 1875 .

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