About Tim Waterstone
Sir Timothy John Stuart 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 == Timothy John Stuart Waterstone 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, The Common, Weybridge, Surrey, a dentist and "well-known amateur rosarian". 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. He was appointed MBE in 1942, whilst serving as a Captain (temporary Major) in the Royal Army Service Corps. 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. He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English. == Career == Waterstone worked for a broking firm in Calcutta, India.
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