continued nightly at 111 Cheapside. In 1824 he made his final move, to 73 Cheapside. In 1825 he started the London Encyclopaedia which ran to twenty-two volumes. He bought remainders on a large scale. He was mentioned as a populariser of literature in Thomas Carlyle's petition on the copyright bill in April 1839. In 1835, being then a common councilman of the ward of Cheap, he was nominated an alderman, but was not elected. In 1836 he was chosen Sheriff of London; he paid the conventional fine to escape serving, of £400, and added another £100, founding a Tegg scholarship at the City of London School and donating a collection of books. He died on 21 April 1845, and was buried at Wimbledon. He was generally believed to have been the original of Timothy Twigg in Thomas Hood's 1834 novel Tylney Hall. Family Tegg left three sons, including Thomas Tegg, a bookseller, who died on 15 September 1871 and William (1816–1895), who continued the business. Works His first short book, The Complete Confectioner, reached a second edition. Tegg was also author of: Memoirs of Sir F. Burdett, 1804. Tegg's Prime Song Book, bang up to the mark, 1810; third collection, 1810; fourth collection, 1810. The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the O. P. War at Covent Garden, in Poetic Epistles, 1810. Chronology, or the Historical Companion: a register of events from the earliest period to the present time, 1811; 5th edition 1854. Book of Utility or Repository of useful Information, connected with the Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Condition of Man, 1822. Remarks on the Speech of Serjeant Talfourd on the Laws relating to Copyright, 1837. Handbook for Emigrants, containing Information on Domestic, Mechanical, Medical, and other subjects, 1839. Extension of Copyright proposed by Serjeant Talfourd, 1840. Treasury of Wit and Anecdote, 1842. A Present to an Apprentice, 2nd edition 1848. He also edited the twelve numbers of The Magazine of Knowledge and Amusement, 1843–4. Notes References Further reading v.2 America to Arsenal, v.3 Arsenic to Belswagger, v.4 Benedict to Cadiz, v.5 Caffraria to Clepsydra, v.6 Clergy to Customs, v.7 Cutlery to Elasticity, v.8 Elasticity to Ezra, v.9 F to Garter, v.10 Gas to Halley, v.11 Halo to Indulgence, v.12 Ink to Lindsey, v.13 Line to Medici, v.14 Medicine to Mithridates, v.15 Mithridates to Nox, v.16 Nubia to Perambulator, v.17 Perception to Post, v.18 Potash to Rome v.19 Rome to Seduction,