Herbert George Jenkins

He began work as a journalist and then spent some 11 years at The Bodley Head before founding his own publishing house in 1912.

[3] It was a successful business from the start because of Jenkins' unique ability (at the time) to cater for the ever-changing public taste.

[5] Barrie & Jenkins had a short commercial history and was taken over by Hutchinson, who were themselves taken over by Century and then by Random House (now owned by Bertelsmann).

He was an admirer of the poet and visual artist William Blake and conducted research into his trial for high treason and the location of his lost grave,[2] writing a book on him, posthumously published in 1925.

In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers".