Stone for Francis S. Tidy in Kingston's Lower Burial Ground
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Born: null 1775

Died: 9 October 1835

Map Location: 28

Inscription

To
The Memory
OF
COLONEL F.S. TIDY C.B.
Who died whilst in Command of
His Majesty’s 24th Regiment of Foot
in this Garison
on the 9th October 1835
at the Age of
60 Years
This Tomb was Erected by
The Officers Non Commissioned Officer Brigade
of the above Corp
a Tribute
of
RESPECT AND ESTEEM
for
COLONEL AND OFFICER
who served his
KING AND COUNTRY
___hfully
for a period of
43 years

Further Information and Sources

Portrait miniature of Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy, CB (1766-1835) by Frederick Buck (1771-c.1839)

  • Col. Tidy entered the army in 1792 as a volunteer in the 43d regiment. He served in the West Indies on three separate occasions, was captured and confined for fifteen months by Victor Hughes, served as Assistant Adjutant-general in an expedition to Spain, joined the 2d battalion of the 14th in Malta, where he remained during the plague and served at Waterloo. (Urban, S. Gent. “Obituary-Col.Tidy,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, London: William Pickering, May 1836 vol 5: 548) – accessed 2015-08-04.
  • Tidy’s daughter (Harriet Ward) wrote his biography titled Recollections of an Old Soldier (London, 1849).
  • Portrait miniature (accessed 2015-08-04) by Frederick Buck (1771-c.1839), Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy, CB (1766-1835) is wearing scarlet coatee with silver buttons in pairs and silver lace epaulettes, the Waterloo medal pinned to his breast.