Lieut. Tilley married, in 1826, Ann, relict of Alexander Greet, Esq., sister-in-law of Thos. Young Greet, Esq., many years Mayor and Chamberlain of the borough of Queenborough, in the Isle of Sheppey, and mother of the present Lieut. Wm. Greet, R.N., by whom he has had issue a son, Edwin, educated at the Royal Naval School, and a daughter, Ann, who died, at the age of 14, at the Royal Naval Female School at Richmond. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
TILLS. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 18; h-p., 19.)
William Tills was born 7 May, 1791.
This officer (he had previously been in the service of the Hon.E.I.Company, and had witnessed, in the Comet Indiaman, the surrender of the Cape of Good Hope to Sir Home Popham) entered the Navy, 26 Feb. 1810, as Midshipman, on board the Grampus 50, Capt. Wm. Hanwell. On his return home, after escorting convoy to the East Indies, he removed, in Nov. 1811, to the Warrior 74, Capts. Lord Viscount Torrington and John Tremayne Rodd. Under those officers he was at the blockade of various ports in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic; contributed to the capture of several armed and other vessels; escorted the Prince of Orange to Holland in Nov. 1813; and made a voyage to the West Indies – experiencing during his passage home a furious hurricane, in which the ship was dismasted, received 11 feet water in her hold, and all but foundered. While the Warrior was stationed in the Baltic he assisted in her boats, with those of the Aetna bomb, at the cutting out of an enemy’s gun-vessel. After he left her he joined in succession – 25 Nov. 1815, the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, part of the force engaged at the bombardment of Algiers – 29 Oct. 1816 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), the Pandora 18, Capts. Hon. Fred. Noel and Geo. Matthew Jones, on the coast of Ireland – 22 Jan. 1818, the Spartan 46, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, employed on the Mediterranean, West India, and Halifax stations – 1 Feb., 1821, the Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, again in the West Indies, where he twice acted as Lieutenant – 20 June, 1825, the Albion 74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, off Lisbon – and, 27 July, 1826, and 27 Aug. 1827, the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, both in the Mediterranean.[1] The very day after the battle of Navarin Mr. Tills was promoted, 21 Oct. 1827, to a death vacancy in the Asia. He was superseded on his return to England in March, 1828, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, first, 10 April, 1828, Miss Charlotte Augusta Brown; and, secondly, 8 March, 1837, Mrs. Maria Wright, widow. By the former lady he has issue three children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
TILLS. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 17; h-p., 33.)
Charles Tills died 8 June, 1845, at 7, Park Place, North Brixton, co. Surrey, aged 69.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Jan. 1796, as A.B., on board the Marie Antoinette, Lieut.-Commanders Perkins and Horsley, of which vessel he was nominated, in the following March, Acting- Master. In the course of the same year, with her boats under his orders, he was severely wounded in boarding a privateer off St. Domingo; and in the early part of 1797 he was, in company with those of the Rattler sloop, at the capture, under a heavy fire, of four armed row-boats and a privateer of 2 guns and 56 men. From June, 1797, until Jan. 1800, he served, still as Acting-Master, in the Proselyte, Capts. Loring and Fowke, on the West India, Irish, Channel, and North Sea stations. In 1799 he took part in the operations connected with the expedition to Holland. On leaving the Proselyte he was received as Master’s Mate on board the Shannon 38, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, in which frigate, and the Princess Charlotte 38, Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, he was for two years and two months employed on the Home station. Being appointed, in the summer of 1802, Admiralty-Midshipman of the Phoebe 36, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, he proceeded soon afterwards to the Mediterranean, where, previously to removing as Master’s Mate, in Aug. 1803, to the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson, he was again wounded in boarding two armed vessels on the coast of Genoa. On 16 Jan. 1805 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell; he was confirmed to that ship, after having accompanied the expedition to Egypt, 7 Oct. 1807; and he was next appointed – 23 April, 1808, to L’Aigle 36, Capt. Geo. Wolfe, under whom he witnessed Lord Cochrane’s celebrated attack upon the French shipping in Aix Roads – 31 Oct. 1809, after three months of half-pay, to the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower, stationed in the Channel and Mediterranean – and, 12 July, 1813 (he had been discharged from the Curaçoa, we believe, in Sept. 1812), to the Rippon 74, Capt. Sir Christopher Cole. In the ship last mentioned he beheld, 21 Oct. 1813, the surrender, off Ushant, of the French 44- gun frigate Le Weser. He was placed on half-pay in Sept. 1814; admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 16 July, 1831; and invested with the rank of Commander on the Retired List 15 April, 1844. For his wounds he obtained a grant from the Patriotic Fund.
TIMINS. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 24; h-p., 38.)
George Timins was born 7 Oct. 1770 and died in Jan. 1848 at Worcester. One of his brothers, Thomas, died a Colonel of Marines; another, John, originally in the Royal Navy, in which he took part in many of the operations connected with the war of independence in America, was an officer of high standing in the maritime service of the Hon.E.I.Co., and distinguished himself in command of the Royal George Indiaman at the beating off, in 1804, of the French squadron under M. Linois by the homeward- bound China fleet under Commodore Dance; and a third, Charles Sheldon, a Retired Commander R.N. (Lieutenant 1799), at one time also In the Company’s service, died 13 April, 1838, at Oriel Lodge, Cheltenham.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Feb. 1785, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Irresistible 74, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, guard-ship in the river Medway; where, and in the Channel, he served, from Sept. 1786 until May, 1792, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the Scipio 64, Capt. Skeffington Lutwidge, and Bellerophon and Vengeance 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Pasley. In the early part of 1796 (he had been for three years in the E.I.Co.’s service) he joined, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the Champion 20, Capt. Henry Raper, and Queen Charlotte 100, Capts. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas and Walter Locke, attached to the fleet in the Channel; and on 2 May, 1797, after having witnessed the mutiny at Spithead, he was made Lieutenant into the Glory 98 Capts. Brine and Thos. Wells. In that ship he continued employed, still in the Channel, until May, 1802. He held an appointment in the Sea Fencible and Impress services at Parkgate and Liverpool from Oct. 1803 until 1810, and from May, 1811, until May, 1815. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 7 Dec. 1839.
Commander Timins was married and has left issue.
TINCOMBE. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 17- h-p., 30.)
George Tincombe was born in Nov. 1784, at Sidmouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 March, 1800, as
- ↑ He served as Admiralty-Midshipman in the Pandora and Spartan; and in the Pyramus, Albion, Glasgow, and Asia, deducting the time he acted as Lieutenant, he performed the duties of Mate.
