Sir Timothy John Stuart Waterstone was born on 30 May 1939 and is a British bookseller, businessman and author.
23 Facts About Tim Waterstone
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Tim Waterstone is the founder of Waterstones, the United Kingdom-based bookseller retail chain, the largest in Europe.
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Timothy John Stuart Waterstone was born on 30 May 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Tim Waterstone is the son of Malcolm Stuart Waterstone, MBE, and Sylvia Catherine, daughter of George Curnock Sawday of Beechfield, The Common, Weybridge, Surrey, a dentist and "well-known amateur rosarian".
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Tim Waterstone was appointed MBE in 1942, whilst serving as a Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps.
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Tim Waterstone was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English.
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Tim Waterstone set up his first branch in Old Brompton Road, Kensington, West London.
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The model was successful and, by ten years later in 1992, Tim Waterstone's had grown to be the largest bookseller group in Europe.
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Tim Waterstone became the founding chairman of HMV Media Group in 1998, which merged the businesses of Waterstone's and HMV.
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Tim Waterstone chaired the DTI Working Group on Smaller Quoted Companies and Private Investors in 1999.
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Tim Waterstone was a founding investor in Bookberry, a Moscow-based booksellers modelled on Waterstone's.
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Tim Waterstone became the chairman of Read Petite, an e-book company, in 2013.
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Tim Waterstone has published a semi-autobiographical business book, Swimming Against The Stream and many articles in the arts and business media.
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Tim Waterstone appeared as a castaway in the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs broadcast on 4 August 2019.
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Tim Waterstone has sat on the Booker Prize Management Committee, and acted as the Chairman of Judges for the Prince's Youth Business Trust Awards.
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Tim Waterstone served as a member of the visiting committee of Cambridge University Library.
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Tim Waterstone served as Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University.
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Tim Waterstone was opposed to the Iraq War and took part in demonstrations against it.
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Tim Waterstone is a campaigner for the democratically desirable proportional representation of House of Lords membership, based on the general election popular vote.
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Tim Waterstone proposes a membership of 500 peers appointed off party lists, and a further 100 from crossbenchers, to be selected by the Appointments Commission and chosen in the interests of special groupings, particularly regional ones.
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Tim Waterstone is married to TV and film producer and novelist Rosie Alison.
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Tim Waterstone is an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
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Tim Waterstone was knighted in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to bookselling and to charity.