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William James Wintle (1861–1934) was an English journalist and writer.
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Life
Wintle's family was from Gloucestershire. He was educated at the Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, in Battersea. He then was headmaster of a school, for a period.
By 1896 Wintle was writing for the Windsor Magazine. He then joined the Harmsworth staff, working for Lord Northcliffe. There he worked on magazines, and the Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, a part-published work. Later he was director of a publishing house.
As naturalist, Wintle was known as a shell collector; his collection went to that of Arthur Blok. He became a fellow of the Zoological Society in 1899. He joined the Malacological Society of London also, in 1916, and was its Secretary in 1919; he was elected to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1917.
Interested in Christian religion, Wintle supported the Anglican church in Chiswick. He spent time on Caldey Island with the Benedictines there. A British Museum list of those presenting zoology specimens in 1920 includes a Brother W. J. Wintle. He later became a Roman Catholic convert.
Works
One of Wintle's pieces of journalism, Life in Our New Century from 1901, was included in the anthology Before Armageddon. It originally appeared in the Harmsworth Magazine. He wrote books:
Wintle wrote for the Sunday School Union, using the pseudonym "John Upton" for a weekly article for the Sunday School Chronicle. With them he published:
According to his obituary, Wintle also wrote a Life of Charles Spurgeon.