Ord Tidbury

Brigadier Ord Henderson Tidbury, MC (10 December 1888 – 14 July 1961) was a senior officer in the British Army.

Early life and family Ord Henderson Tidbury was born on December 10, 1888, the son of Lieutenant Colonel James Tidbury (died 1936), of North Bend, Woking in Surrey, an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and his wife Agnes (died 1945), daughter of Robert Henderson of Glasgow and Leghorn. In 1924, he married Beryl Marjorie, only daughter of C. M. Pearce of Dundarach, Camberley (formerly of Calcutta), Beryl Tidbury was a founder of the Hong Kong Fellowship for supporting relatives of British prisoners of war; she died in 1955. Four years later, Ord Tidbury married Joan Windham, the daughter of Ashe Windham. After her husband's death, she married Major Hugh D'Oyly Lyle (died 1977), son of Colonel Thomas Lyle and a descendant of the D'Oyly baronets, and died in 1990.