1811 - apprenticed to Mr Whitehead, a bookseller and stationer at Portsea, Hampshire; 1817 -returned to London in January and worked intermittently at Hatchards and other bookselling businesses; 1818-1819 - at Longman & Co; 1820-1826 - returned to Hatchards;

1826 - 9 October started lucrative publishing and bookselling business at 86 Fleet Street, at the corner of St Bride's Passage or Avenue; 1840-1843 - partnership with David Bogue, trading as Tilt & Bogue; succeeded by David Bogue in 1843