Tidy as a
surname derives from the Middle English word ''tidef'', which designated a type of small bird.
[''Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames'', Reaney & Wilson, Oxford University Press 2005]
People with the name include:
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Bill Tidy (1933–2023), English cartoonist
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Charles Meymott Tidy (1843–1892), English medical man and sanitary chemist
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Frank Tidy (1932–2017), British cinematographer
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George Tidy
George Thomas Tidy (28 July 1930 – 12 February 2023) was a Scottish Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper during the 1950s.
Although he initially started as a centre-half with Royston ...
(1930–2023), Scottish footballer
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Henry Letheby Tidy
Sir Henry "Harry" Letheby Tidy (28 October 1877 – 3 June 1960) was a British physician and gastroenterologist.
Biography
After education at Winchester College and then at New College, Oxford, he studied medicine at the London Hospital and g ...
(1877–1960), English physician
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Thomas Holmes Tidy (–1874), British army officer
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Thomas Tidy (1846–1892), English cricketer
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Warwick Tidy (born 1953), English cricketer
References
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English-language surnames