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Mr. Acton Tindal. - Mr. Tindal, of the Manor House, Aylesbury, died on the 26th October, 1850, in the seventieth year of his age. He was the eldest son of the late Thomas Tindal, Esq., of the Prebendal House, Aylesbury, Clerk of the Peace, and Treasurer of the County of Buckingham, who died in 1850; his mother being the daughter of Acton Chaplin, Esq., of Aylesbury, also Clerk of the Peace and Treasurer of the County. His grandfather was Robert Tindal, of Coval Hall, Chelmsford, who died in 1835, and who married the only daughter of John Pocock, Esq., of Greenwich, leaving issue (inter alia) Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Kt., D.C.L., sometime His Majesty's Solicitor-General, and afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and Thomas Tindal, Esq., of Aylesbury. Mr. A. Tindal married Henrietta Euphemia, only surviving child of the late Rev. J. Harrison, Vicar of Dinton, and has left issue Nicolas, Acton Giffard, Charles Harrison, and Margaret Sabina. Mr. Tindal has been associated with the County and with the town of Aylesbury for a very long period; as early as the year 1834, as Clerk to the Magistrates at Aylesbury, and afterwards, on the resignation of his father, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Buckingham, which office he held forty-two years. He also held the office of Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham. At the formation of the Aylesnury Poor Law Union, in 1835, Mr. Tindal was appointed Clerk, an office he held for three years, but, resigned in the year 1838. Notwithstanding the various public labours incumbent on him, Mr. Tindal did not shrink from his share of duties as a parishioner. As a member of the Aylesbury Board of Guardians, Chairman of the Local Board of Health, the Burial Board, as Churchwarden, as a Trustee of Bedford's Charity, Trustee of the Savings' Bank, and in other local public offices, he always rendered his ready assistance, and uniformly gave the greatest satisfaction in the performance of any duties he had undertaken. In the year 1849, he became Lord of the Manor of Aylesbury, with its appurtenances. The Manor came into the public market, amongst the other estates of the late Duke of Buckingham, and was purchased by Mr. Tindal. On the purchase of the Manor, the new Lord made a present of the public clock to the town of Aylesbury, which for some years was the well-known authentic time keeper, erected on the turret, of the late Market House, and which now performs a like useful duty in the present Clock tower, the foundation stone of which building was laid by the late Mrs. Tindal in 1876. On the occasion of Mr. Tindal becoming Lord of the Manor, and his presentation of the town clock, a public complimentary dinner was given to him, which was largely attended by the residents of the town and neighbourhood. Records of Buckinghamshire, or, Papers and notes on the history, Vol. 5, p. 243.

GRAFTON BENEFACTRESS DEAD.
GRAFTON. February 28.
News has been received in Grafton of the death, in Sydney, yesterday of Miss Anne Grant Tindal of Yattendon. Seelands, Clarence River. Miss Tindal was a daughter of the late Mr. C.G. Tindal who was the founder of Ramornie station, and a sister of Mr. C.F. Tindal of Bona Vista, Armidale and of the late Mr. J.T. Tindal, of Titiana. Glen Innes. The deceased lady went to Sydney on Friday last for the purpose of consulting an eye specialist, and was staying with her sister, Mrs. C.V. Mather, of Green Knolls, Potts Point. Death took place unexpectedly. The deceased lady had spent most of her life in England, and came to the Clarence River some years ago, when she purchased a property on the river bank at Seelands, known as Yattendon. where she had resided until the time of her death, at the age of about 70 years. Being of a generous disposition. Miss Tindal lent assistance in many quarters, and the school children and many local residents and institutions will lose a benefactress. She donated the Yattendon Cup, which has been the subject of competition in swimming and tennis contests among the various schools in the district. The deceased also made it an annual practice to give a silver-mounted whip to the jockey riding the winner of the Ramornie Handicap at the annual meeting of the Clarence River Jockey Club.⁵

Lieut. Arthur Willoughby Tindal was born at Ramornie and educated at Southport, Qld., Armidale, N. S. W., and the Sydney University, where he passed his 1st year medical examination in 1916. He sailed for England in September, 1916, and trained at St. John's Wood Artillery School. He was granted a commission in the Royal Field Artillery, and crossed to France on 10th July, 1917, attached to the 1st Ammunition Column, and later to the Heavy Trench Mortar Battery.

Tindal, Charles Grant (1823–1914)

The pioneer of Australian meat works, Mr. Charles Grant Tindal, died in England last month at the age of ninety years. The son of Captain Charles Tindal, R.N., he was the first man to establish meat works in Australia—at Ramornie, Clarence River, N.S.W.
When quite a boy he came to New South Wales to the late Captain Ogilvie, of Merton, and thence to the latter's son, the late Mr. E. D. H. Ogilvie, of Yulgilbar Station, Upper Clarence. Mr. Ogilvie was the first man to stock country on the Clarence, fetching the cattle up from the Hunter with blacks. Later on the late Mr. Tindal explored into Queensland, and subsequently bought Koreela, at the head of the Clarence, then known as the Big river. Early in the fifties he sold Koreela and purchased Ramornie, portion of which runs to within eleven miles of Grafton, and which is now in the possession of the late Mr. Tindal's son, Mr. C. P. Tindal.
He started boiling-down works, which later on developed into the Ramornie tinning and meat extract works. To do this he went to England in 1862 and formed a small limited company. The meat works were opened in 1865 or 1866, and have worked for a portion of every year since, being by far the oldest meat works in Australia. To it came from England many men who became well known in the meat export trade, amongst them the late Mr. T. Cordingley, as chemist, and later founder, with Mr. Tindal, of the North Queensland Meat Export Company, and Mr. Alban Gee, of the Sydney Meat Preserving Company.
In 1879 the other shareholders became disheartened by several unprofitable years, so Mr. Tindal bought them out, and carried on the works himself.
In 1885 he added the combined Gunyan and Bonshaw Stations, Q., to his properties, and a few years later Trigamon, adjoining. Later he joined Mr. Cordingley in buying the boiling-down works at Alligator Creek, Townsville. After several visits to England, he finally settled there in 1890, managing the London end of the business, his son (Mr. C. F. Tindal) being general manager out here. Pastoral Review, 16 March 1914.⁶

Lieut. Charles Henry Tindal was born at Ramornie and educated in Yorkshire, England. He is 31 years of age. and on 30th December, 1912, married Gladys Clare Cay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shotto Cay, of Lytham, Jericho, Queensland. Their children are Janet Clare, Charles Shotto, and Nicolas John. He served for a short time as 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Hants Territorials, England, and later held a commission in the Light Horse, Grafton District, N. S. W., but resigned after two years' service in 1912, owing to pressure of business on becoming manager of the Ramornie Station and Meat Works . He sailed for England in September, 1916, and passed through St. John's Wood Artillery School, and was given a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. He was sent to France on 2nd July, 1917, and was wounded. He was awarded the Military Medal in August, 1917.

A Member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, a Director of the South Sea House, and one of the Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London.

He was the youngest son of the late Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his respected father before him had early in life distinguished himself. Mr. Tindal was for several years Marshal to his father, and his urbanity and gentlemanly manners will be long recollected not only by all of his own year at Cambridge, but also by every one with whom in his official capacity he came in contact while attending his father on the various circuits. Shortly before the Chief Justice's death, Mr. Tindal was appointed to the office of Registrar of the Acknowledgements of the Deeds of Married Women, which post on the elevation of Sir Thomas Wilde to the Chief Justiceship, he afterwards held conjointly with Mr. Edward Archer Wilde, until the appointment of Sir John Jervis, who bestowed it on his son-in-law, Mr. Bankes. Since that time Mr. Tindal held no place whatever, passing the greater portion of his time at his house, Milland Place, Liphook, Hants, where his health becoming gradually more and more impaired, he at length determined, on the advice of his physician, Dr. Williams, to try the effect of a long sea voyage, and at the recommendation of that gentleman sailed on the 20th Jan. 1853, in the Panthea for Sydney, New South Wales. At Ryde, in the neighbourhood of that town, he resided for some time, but afterwards moved to St. Mary's, South Creek, Penrith, and his strength rapidly declining, his constitution at length gave way to the repeated attacks which had so long been undermining it, to the deep regret of a very extensive circle of friends and acquaintances, to whom his uniformly gentlemanly and amiable conduct had universally endeared him. The Gentleman's magazine, 1854 p. 322.