JOHN

See also:

• JOHN TIMBS (18os-1875)

TIMBS (18os-1875)  , English antiquary, was born in Clerkenwell, London, on the 17th of August 18os . 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 . He died in London on the 6th of March 1875 .