John Harry Robert Timpson OBE (2 July 1928 – 19 November 2005), was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, a boys' independent school in Northwood, London.Born at Ridgeholme, 53 The Ridgeway, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, on leaving school he went straight into employment at the Wembley News as a sixteen-year-old cub reporter.