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Tim Waterstone
British bookseller, businessman and author (born 1939)
Sir Tim Waterstone (born 30 May 1939) is a British bookseller, businessman and author. He is the founder of Waterstones, the United Kingdom-based bookseller retail chain, the largest in Europe.
Early life
[edit]Timothy John Stuart Waterstone[1] was born on 30 May 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the son of Malcolm Stuart Waterstone, MBE (died 1977), and Sylvia Catherine (died 1967), daughter of George Curnock Sawday of Beechfield,[2] The Common, Weybridge, Surrey, a dentist[3][4] and "well-known amateur rosarian".[5][6][7] Malcolm Waterstone had previously worked in Calcutta in his fifty-year career with P. R. Buchanan & Co., a Glasgow tea company operating in India, of which he became a partner. [8][9] He was appointed MBE in 1942, whilst serving as a Captain (temporary Major) in the Royal Army Service Corps.[10][11][12][13] Waterstone grew up in "a rather cramped, 1930s detached house ... Ugly, unpretentious, nice big garden, fields at the end of it" in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.[12] He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College,
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Waterstones
British bookshop chain
This article is about the British book retailer. For stones used to sharpen steel tools, see sharpening stone.
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Retail Bookshop |
| Founded | Old Brompton Road, London, 1982; 43 years ago (1982) |
| Founder | Tim Waterstone |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Number of locations | 311 shops (June 2022)[2] |
Area served | United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands |
Key people | James Daunt (MD) |
| Products | Books, stationery |
| Revenue | £399.8 million (2022)[3] |
Number of employees | 3,500[4] |
| Parent | Elliott Management Corporation |
| Website | waterstones.com |
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading asWaterstones (formerly Waterstone's), is a British book retailer, owned by US investment group, Elliott Investment Management, that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and other nearby countries.[5] As of February 2014[update], it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe.[5][6] An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately 30,000 i
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