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journalist malacologist naturalist writer
He was educated at the Sir Walter Street John"s Grammar School Foreign Boys, in Battersea.
Wintle"s family was from Gloucestershire. 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. He spent time on Caldey Island with the Benedictines there.
A British Museum list of those presenting zoology specimens in 1920 includes a Brother West. J. Wintle.
He later became a Roman Catholic convert.
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