Tidy (surname)
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Tidy as a surname derives from the Middle English word tidef, which designated a type of small bird.[1]
People with the name include:
- Bill Tidy (1933–2023), English cartoonist
- Charles Meymott Tidy (1843–1892), English medical man and sanitary chemist
- Frank Tidy (1932–2017), British cinematographer
- George Tidy (1930–2023), Scottish footballer
- Henry Letheby Tidy (1877–1960), English physician
- Thomas Holmes Tidy (c. 1808–1874), British army officer
- Thomas Tidy (1846–1892), English cricketer
- Warwick Tidy (born 1953), English cricketer
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames, Reaney & Wilson, Oxford University Press 2005