Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–97)

Danish-born journalist and publisher. Originally named Peter Lund, he assumed the surname Simmonds on his adoption by a British naval lieutenant of that name. Midshipman on board the brig Cygnet, 1826. Sugar planter in Jamaica, 1831–4. Secretary to the founder of the Royal Agricultural Society from 1841. Founder of Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany; editor, 1844–9. Newspaper and advertising agent in London, 1849–59. Owner and editor of the Technologist, 1860–6; of the Journal of Applied Science, 1870–81. Wrote for a wide variety of journals, and published several books on commercial agriculture.