JOHN TIMBS (18os-1875)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 981
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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
.
End of Article: JOHN TIMBS (18os-1875)
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