Tyndall

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The modern era

Sir Nicolas ultimately left no descendants in the male line, though a branch of the Bosanquet family are his descendants and Reginald Bosanquet, the broadcaster for ITN, was his great great grandson. Members of the main branch of the English family descend from his brother, Thomas Tindal of Aylesbury, Clerk of the Peace for Buckinghamshire. His son, Acton Tindal, Lord of the Manor of Aylesbury, married Henrietta Euphemia Harrison, an eminent poet [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2006)] and descendant of Francis Turner, one of the seven Bishops to defy James II and his Declaration of Indulgences, and of Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of State to Charles I ["Burke's Landed Gentry" (1868) 'Harrison of Ramsey'] . Acton's son, Nicolas, married Elizabeth Carill-Worsley, heiress of Platt Hall near Manchester and the family adopted the name Tindal-Carill-Worsley. ["Burke's Landed Gentry" (1973) Tindal-Carill-Worsley, "formerly" of East Carleton & Platt] Elizabeth was a descendant of Erasmus Darwin and of Major General Charles Worsley of Platt, one of Oliver Cromwell's most important Lieutenants to whom was entrusted the Mace when Cromwell famously cried 'rid me of that bauble' in expelling the House of Commons in 1652. [Booker, Rev J "History of Birch Chapel" (19th c) pp 48/49.]

The current head of the English family is Charles Tindal of Ballyloughan (he does not use 'Carill-Worsley'), son of Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley, a bomber pilot during World War II and one of the organisers of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III. His brother, Anthony, son, Matthew and niece and nephew William and Harriet together run Tindal Wines in England and Ireland (www.tindalwine.com, www.tindalwines.co.uk).

(See also Darwin - Wedgwood family)

Irish branch and distinguished individuals

Derivation

A branch of the family settled in Ireland in the Middle Ages, and manuscript genealogical records of these exist in Trinity College Dublin. ["Manuscript genealogies": see MS. vols. F.3.23, F.3.27, F.4.18 in Trinity College Library, Dublin] The family originated in Gloucestershire and were closely related to William Tyndale, the bible translator. Another William Tyndall is mentioned in the 1659 census as living in Duganstowne, Catherlagh (County Carlow), co-owned by him and a Richard Andrewes as tituladoes. Similarly, a John Tyndall came from Gloucestershire to Ireland during the Wars of Rebellion and had a grant of land confirmed to him in 1668. He married Isabelle de Rinzy of County Wexford.

Amongst the landed gentry in Ireland in the 1800s, Tyndalls appeared established with estates and seats at Ballyanne House, and Berkeley Forest, both in New Ross, County Wexford, and Prospect Hall, County Kilkenny, as well as in County Carlow, and Kildevin, County Westmeath, and Dublin City. Samuel Tyndall served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1826 to 1827.

Prominent Irish Tyndalls

John Tyndall (1820-1893) from Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, was a well-known physicist from Ireland, who discovered the Tyndall effect, explaining why the sky is blue. [Brock, WH, and Mollan, RC (ed) (Royal Dublin Society 1981) "John Tyndall – Essays on a Natural Philosopher".] ["Dublin Almanacks", 1830, 1840, & 1860.] A relative, another John Tyndall of Newcastle ran a forge, coachmaking and saddlery, in the middle of the 1800s, and his grandson, David P. Tyndall (1890-1970), from Chapelizod, became a prominent Irish businessman in the 20th century, who founded the firm D. Tyndall & Sons, as well as several other companies, and consolidated and modernised the wholesale trade sector, introducing the SPAR chain into Ireland. Other lines of the Irish branch of the family have spread to Australia and the USA.

Tyndall-named institutions and places

* England: The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has locations in the University of East Anglia in Norwich, the University of Manchester, the University of Southampton, the University of Sussex in Brighton, Oxford University, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 'Tindal Square' in Chelmsford is named after Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal. 'Tindal Hospital', Aylesbury, is named after the family of Thomas and Acton Tindal, Lords of the Manor of Aylesbury. A branch of the Tyndall family settled in Fort House, Bristol, and have given their name to many sites around the campus of the University of Bristol: there is a Tyndall lecture theatre and, nearby, a road named Tyndall Avenue.

* Ireland: In honour of physicist John Tyndall, the Tyndall National Institute was created in Ireland in 2004 at the initiative of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment and University College Cork (UCC) to bring together complementary activities in photonics, electronics and networking research at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC), several UCC academic departments and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).

* New Zealand, The Tyndall name has lent itself to an important investment fund management enterprise.

* USA: Tyndall Air Force Base, named for World War I flying ace, Lt. Frank B. Tyndall, is located in Bay County, Florida. The small City of Tyndall, South Dakota is the county seat of Bon Homme County.

* Australia: Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal, in the Northern Territory is named after Wing Cmdr Archibald Tindal, the first Australian airman to be killed on the Australian mainland in World War II (see above under Tindal/Tindal-Carill-Worsley family).

* Canada: The town of Tyndall, Manitoba. Tyndall stone is the name of a limestone often used in construction and decoration in Manitoba.

* A crater on Mars is named after John Tyndall.

Notes

References

*"Langley Barony Records" at the National Archives (UK) (from ADM 74/3/11 of 13 Charles I to QCD/17 of 1954)
*Rudder, Samuel (1779) "A New History of Gloucestershire"
*Burke, John (1838, London) "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland"
*Dictionary of National Biography - entries include William Tyndale, Dr Matthew Tindal, Rev Nicolas Tindal, Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia (nee) Harrison (Mrs Acton Tindal).
*Burke's Landed Gentry: 19th century editions: Tyndale of Haling, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA21-PA1512&lpg=RA21-PA1512&dq=%22nicolas+tindal%22&source=web&ots=n4j2QKwnuN&sig=4gGSUKhxb2cBiw9CRXAC98SPCWE#PRA21-PA1512,M1 'Tindal of Chelmsford'] (1863); Tindal-Carill Worsley of Platt (1973)
*Burke's Colonial Gentry: Tindal of Ramorlie.
*John Nichols (printer)"Literary Anecdotes" (18th c), Vol IX
*Bence-Jones, Mark (Constable & Co, 1988) "A Guide to Irish Country Houses", pp 19 and 41.
*Coller, DW (1861) [http://books.google.com/books?id=FdwMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA844&lpg=RA1-PA844&dq=%22nicolas+tindal%22&source=web&ots=4AK4aBFwHR&sig=46HUdjfi1rzh6fl3II4SKIubjDI#PRA1-PA844,M1 'A People's History of Essex']
*Lalor, Stephen (Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2006) "Matthew Tindal, Freethinker: An Eighteenth-century Assault on Religion", ISBN 0-8264-7539-6
*Eve, AS, and Creasey, CH (Macmillan, 1945) "Life and Work of John Tyndall"
*"Manuscript genealogies": see MS. vols. F.3.23, F.3.27, F.4.18 in Trinity College Library, Dublin
*Haydn, Joseph (Allen, 1894) "The Book of Dignities"
*Fairbairn, James (Jack, London, 1905) "Fairbairn's Book of Crests of Families of Great Britain and Ireland"
*Vicars, Sir Arthur (Dublin, 1897) "Prerogative Wills of Ireland (1536-1810) - Index".
*Brock, WH, and Mollan, RC (ed) (Royal Dublin Society 1981) "John Tyndall – Essays on a Natural Philosopher".
*"Dublin Almanacks", 1830, 1840, & 1860.

External links

*Tyndall National Institute (Ireland) [http://www.tyndall.ie]
*Tyndall Center for Climatic Change Research (UK) [http://www.tyndall.ac.uk]
*Tyndall Air Force Base (USA) [http://www.tyndall.af.mil]
* [www.tindalwine.com Tindal Wines]