Social Victorians/People/Tilney

Also Known As

• Family name: Tilney

Demographics

• Nationality:

Residences

• The Hall, Basford, Nottinghamshire (1939)

Family

The identification of Mr. Tilney as Mr. William Arthur Tilney is at the lowest level of certainty.

• William Arthur Tilney (18 June 1868 – 4 July 1947)
• Hylda Sophia Paget (c. 1875 – 31 March 1959)
  1. Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney (1903 – )
  2. Edward Vyner Tilney (1906 – )

Timeline

1897 July 2, Mr. Tilney attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1897 July 15, Thursday, "Colonial Day," Mr. W. A. Tilney took part in the polo match at Ranelagh, playing for the17th Lancers with Lord Osborne de Vere Beauclerc, Mr. Carden, and Mr. W. Buckmaster. against the Horse Guards Blue.(p. 8, Col. 2a) The events in this jubilee year were

troops from all the continents of the globe, troops white, yellow, brown and black, all of them "Soldiers of the Queen." They came to see a driving competition, got up in their honour, in which English dukes and other magnificoes drove four-in-hand coaches in and out between a sort of ninepins; and a match at polo, the sport of Indian princes and English [c]avalry officers, in which all eyes were bent on the Runwar Dhokul Singh, the dashing Sikh noble, who plays polo as no one ever saw it played in England before.(p. 8, Col. 1c)

1902, 4th quarter, William Arthur Tilney and Hylda Sophia Paget married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mr. Tilney (at 615) was dressed as Sir Galahad in the Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur procession. (8, Col. 1c)

Notes and Questions

1. A search of the British Newspaper Archive for Tilney (in September 2021) turns up one result referring to a person and two to Tilney-street. Bad OCR might explain how strikingly small the number of results is. That single reference to a person is to a Mr. W. A. Tilney, who played polo at an event attended by a large number of the aristocracy and oligarchy. So perhaps the Mr. Tilney who attended the ball is Mr. W. A. Tilney — Mr. William Arthur Tilney — the only Tilney with a similar name that can be found right now.
2. The Tilney family was very important at the end of the 15th century and during Queen Elizabeth I's reign, as Ann Boleyn's mother was a Tilney, and a financial firm of Tilney & Co. existed at the end of the 19th century.