Edward Kimber (1719–1769) was an English novelist, journalist and compiler of reference works.
He was son of Isaac Kimber;[1] and in early life apprentice to a bookseller, John Noon of Cheapside.
[1] Kimber spent the years 1742 to 1744 in British North America, and drew on his travels in subsequent writing.
[3] In 1745–6 he published a series of Itinerant Observations in America in The London Magazine, at that point edited by his father.
With Richard Johnson he edited and continued Thomas Wooton's Baronetage of England, 3 vols., London, 1771.