Simpkin
Simpkin may refer to: * Simpkin (surname) * Simpkin, a fictional cat in ''The Tailor of Gloucester'' (1903) by Beatrix Potter * A. L. Simpkin & Co. Ltd, English confectionery makers * Simpkin & Marshall Simpkin & Marshall was a British bookseller, book wholesaler and book publisher. The firm was founded in 1819 and traded until the 1940s. For many decades the firm was Britain's largest book wholesalerChester W, Topp, ''Victorian Yellowbacks & Pap ...

Simpkin (surname)
Simpkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anne Simpkin (born 1969), British tennis player *Chris Simpkin (born 1944), British footballer * George Simpkin (1943–2020), New Zealand rugby coach *Jake Simpkin (born 2001), Australian rugby player *Jonathan Simpkin (born 1987), Australian footballer *Jy Simpkin (born 1998), Australian footballer *Luke Simpkin (born 1979), British boxer * Mark Simpkin (born 1972), English television presenter and businessman *Richard Simpkin (1921–1986), British Army officer *Tom Simpkin Tom Simpkin (born 7 August 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Playing career Simpkin was recruited with the 29th pick in the 2009 r ... (born 1990), Australian footballer See also * Simpkin (other) {{surname ...
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The Tailor Of Gloucester
''The Tailor of Gloucester'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite. Composition In the summer of 1901, Potter was working on ''The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin'', but took time to develop a tale about a poor tailor she heard in the Gloucestershire home of her cousin Caroline Hutton probably in 1897. The tale was finished by Christmas 1901, and given as a Christmas present to ten-year-old Freda Moore, the daughter of her former governess. The tale was based on a real world incident involving John Prichard (1877–1934), a Gloucester tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new ...
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