Edward Kimber (1719–1769) was an English novelist, journalist and compiler of reference works.
He was son of Isaac Kimber; [1] and in early life apprentice to a bookseller, John Noon of Cheapside. [2] He made a living by compilation and editorial work for booksellers. [1]
Kimber spent the years 1742 to 1744 in British North America, and drew on his travels in subsequent writing. [3] In 1745–6 he published a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, at that point edited by his father. [4]
Kimber wrote: [1]
He also wrote memoirs of his father, together with a poem to his memory, prefixed to Isaac Kimber's Sermons, 1756. With Richard Johnson he edited and continued Thomas Wooton's Baronetage of England, 3 vols., London, 1771. [1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "
Kimber, Edward".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Edward Kimber (1719–1769) was an English novelist, journalist and compiler of reference works.
He was son of Isaac Kimber; [1] and in early life apprentice to a bookseller, John Noon of Cheapside. [2] He made a living by compilation and editorial work for booksellers. [1]
Kimber spent the years 1742 to 1744 in British North America, and drew on his travels in subsequent writing. [3] In 1745–6 he published a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, at that point edited by his father. [4]
Kimber wrote: [1]
He also wrote memoirs of his father, together with a poem to his memory, prefixed to Isaac Kimber's Sermons, 1756. With Richard Johnson he edited and continued Thomas Wooton's Baronetage of England, 3 vols., London, 1771. [1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "
Kimber, Edward".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.