Biografia Timbs è nato nel 1801 a Clerkenwell, Londra, e ha studiato in una scuola privata a Hemel Hempstead. Nel suo sedicesimo anno fu apprendista di un droghiere e tipografo a Dorking. Aveva mostrato presto capacità letterarie e, quando ebbe diciannove anni, iniziò a scrivere per il The Monthly Magazine. Un anno dopo divenne segretario di Sir Richard Phillips, il suo titolare, e adottò permanentemente la letteratura come professione.

È stato successivamente redattore di The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, il Harlequin, The Literary World e viceredattore di The Illustrated London News. È stato anche fondatore e primo redattore del Yearbook of facts in Science and Art. Le sue opere pubblicate ammontano a più di centocinquanta volumi. Nel 1834 fu eletto membro della Society of Antiquaries of London.

Timbs morì il 6 marzo 1875 e fu sepolto nel cimitero di San Pietro e San Paolo, Edenbridge, nel Kent.

Opere Alcune di queste opere sono state pubblicate con lo pseudonimo di Horace Welby. Le sue opere continuarono ad essere rieditate e ripubblicate anche dopo la sua morte.

Opere letterarie A picturesque promenade round Dorking, in surrey, 1822 Signs before death, and authenticated apparitions: in 100 narratives, collected by Horace Welby, 1825 Laconics, 1826 Arcana of science and art: or, an annual register of useful inventions and improvements, discoveries and new facts, in mechanics, chemistry, natural history, and social economy, 1828 Cameleon sketches, 1828 Table-wit, and after-dinner anecdote, 1840 A manual of cage birds, british and foreign: with directions for breeding, rearing and keeping them, 1847 Wellingtonia: anecdotes, maxims and characteristics of the duke of Wellington, 1852 Curiosities of London, 1855 Things not generally known, 1856 Curiosities of history, 1857 Curiosities of science ...: a book for old and young, 1858 School-days of eminent men, 1858 Painting popularly explained: including fresco, oil, tempera, mosaic, encaustic, water-colour, miniature, missal, painting on pottery, porcelain, enamel, glass, &c., with historical sketches of the progress of the art, 1859 Things not generally known, familiarly explained, 1859 Anecdote lives of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence and J.M.W. Turner, 1860 Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts, 1860 Mysteries of life, death, and futurity, 1861 Anecdote lives of wits and humourists, 1862 Anecdote lives of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and Edmund Burke, 1862 Notabilia: or, curious and amusing facts about many things, explained and illustrated, 1862 Popular errors explained and illustrated, 1862 Things to be remembered in daily life, 1863 A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, 1864 Knowledge for the time, 1864 The romance of London, 1865 Club life of London, 1866 English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1866 Something for everybody; and a garland for the year, 1866 Strange stories of the animal world: a book of curious contributions to natural history, 1866 Nooks and corners of english life, past and present, 1867 Historic ninepins: a book of curiosities, where old and young may read strange matters, 1868 London and Westminster: city and suburb, 1868 Ancestral stories and traditions of great families, 1869 Mountain adventures in the various countries of the world, 1869 Abbeys, castles, and ancient halls of England and Wales, 1870 Wonderful inventions: from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable, 1870 Clubs and club life in London, 1872 Curiosities of animal and vegetable life, 1872 Oddities of history: and strange stories, 1872 Thoughts for times and seasons, 1872 Doctors and patients: or, anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine, 1873 Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists English eccentrics: portraits of strange characters and oddballs Strange sights and sporting scenes

Periodici Harlequin. A journal of the drama, dal 1829 The Literary World, dal 1839 Yearbook of facts in Science and Art, dal 1853 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

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