- Thomas Tyldesley
Sir Thomas Tyldesley was a supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the
English Civil War .Tyldesley served King Charles I as Lieutenant Colonel at the
Battle of Edgehill , after raising Regiments of Horse, Foot and Dragoons, and of the desperate storming of Burton-on-Trent over a bridge of 36 arches, received the honour of Knighthood. Afterwards he served in all three of the Civil Wars as a commander of some importance. He was Governor of Litchfield and followed the fortune ofthe Crown through theWars of the Three Kingdoms and never surrendered to the Parliamentarians. He was killed in action on25 August 1651 commanding as Major General under the Earl of Derby during theBattle of Wigan Lane . [ [http://www.tyldesley.co.uk/ Sir Thomas Tyldesley 1612-1651] Using the text on the Wiggan Lane Monument] [cite web|url=http://archive.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/2001/9/4/659703.html|publisher=Bolton Evening News|date=2001-09-04|accessdate=2008-02-10|title=Remember Sir Thomas] ,References
Further reading
* Stuart Reid (1987). The Finest Knight in England: Sir Thomas Tyldesley His Regiments and the War in the North,Partizan Press, ISBN 0946525390
* Terry Wyke (2004) Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 0853235678. [http://books.google.com/books?id=_h5hIINSn3cC&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&source=web&ots=FfFIgSlaLO&sig=-wjTkFUUkbyTBGX8rLSZD-DE4sE Page 425] "Wigan Lane Tyldesley Monumnet"
* [http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/tyldesleys/tyldesleys/original.htm Sir Thomas Tyldesley's Regiment of Foote]
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