Tilney and Tylney are surnames of English origin. They may refer to:

People

*Agnes Tilney (AKA

Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Agnes Howard ( née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Catherine Howard was placed in the Dowa ...

, 14771545), English noblewoman * Colin Tilney (born 1933), harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher *

Edmund Tylney Sir Edmund Tilney or Tylney (1536–1610) was a courtier best known now as Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth and King James. He was responsible for the censorship of drama in England. He was also instrumental in the development of English ...

(AKA Edmund Tilney, 15361610), courtier to Elizabeth I of England, and Master of the Revels *

Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (before 1445 – 4 April 1497) was an English heiress who became the first wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (when still Earl of Surrey). She served successively as a lady-in-waiting to two Queen ...

(before 14451497), English heiress and lady-in-waiting to two queens * Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire * John Tilney (190794), British businessman and politician *

Robert Tilney Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, (2 November 1903 – May 1981) was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War. Military career Robert Tilney was a Territorial Army officer, formerly of the Leicestershire Yeomanry. He ...

(before 1943after 1962), British Army officer who served during World War II * William S. Tilney (born 1939), American public official, lawyer and diplomat

Places

Thorpe Tilney Thorpe Tilney is a hamlet in the civil parish of Timberland in the district of North Kesteven, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The hamlet is located directly south of Timberland, and stretches from Thorpe Tilney on the B1189 eastwards ...

, hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire, England *

Tilney All Saints Tilney All Saints is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 563 in 230 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 573 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls w ...

, civil parish in the English county of Norfolk * Tilney St Lawrence, village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk

Business

* Tilney (company)

Literature

Henry Tilney Henry Tilney is the leading man in Jane Austen's 1817 novel ''Northanger Abbey''. The younger son of a local landowner, Tilney is comfortably placed as a beneficed clergyman on his father's estate. Character Tilney, with his teasing yet kind-hea ...

( Northanger Abbey)

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