Gordon Tidy (7 January 1862 – 30 April 1953)[note 1] was a journalist in Australia before returning to England as a minister of religion, among other occupations.
After an education at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Tidy rose to the rank of lieutenant of the 8th King's Regiment.
Serving at Meerut, India in the 1880s, he once observed Robert Baden-Powell, the adjutant of the 13th Hussars, to be an excellent mimic and a leadership example.
[10] Finishing with Condobolin's newspaper, the Argus, following in the calling of his grandfather, in January 1898 Tidy became a catechist with the Church of England in the Nymagee district.
[11] Tidy administered with noted scholastic sermons both in Australia and England, whilst also temporarily converting to the Catholic Church.