Hilda Elise (Biddy) Tuxworth MBE (25 June 1908 – 19 January 1994) was a nurse, community worker and historian who spent much of her life living in the Northern Territory of Australia.
One of her primary interests was oral history and she collected interviews from many residents and so called 'old timers' of Tennant Creek which are now held by Library & Archives NT.
Alongside her friend Marjorie Fullwood she also collected and copied significant amount of documents and photographs relating to the region which where then deposited with the Fryer Library and within the Tuxworth-Fullwod archives.
[1][5] During her career as a historian Tuxworth published a series of books and small publications, including Tennant Creek: yesterday and today (1966), and was a contributor to the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography.
As a part of this, helped lobby for the prevention of the demolition of the former outpatients department of the Tennant Creek Hospital and this is now known as Tuxworth Fullwood House which holds their archives as well as being the headquarters of the National Trust.