Charles John Tibbits (31 January 1861 – 7 July 1935) was a British journalist, newspaper editor, and legal writer.
[4] Tibbits attended Albion House School, Chester,[note 1] and matriculated at Oxford University on 18 October 1880, where he studied to join the Church.
[7] After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1886,[8] he "wandered into journalism" instead,[7] becoming a reporter, sub-editor, then editor of various local newspapers.
[11][12] In 1901, Tibbits and his reporter Charles Windust were convicted for publishing prejudicial articles about an ongoing court case,[13] and were sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
[18] Tibbits married the author[note 2] Annie Olive Brazier on 18 January 1896 at St Marylebone Parish Church, London.