He was a specialist professional batsman, usually third in the batting order, who rarely bowled and generally fielded in outfield positions.

Tyldesley served in the British Army during the war, attaining the rank of corporal, and then recommenced his Lancashire career in 1919.

[10] After that, his form lapsed again and, apart from one innings of 68 against Somerset at Old Trafford,[11] he made low scores only, including four ducks, in the remainder of the season.

He failed in these matches, but by this time was established as a top-class batsman with a superb range of strokes and wonderful footwork that made him effective even on pitches where the ball had considerable spin it did after rain in those days.

[citation needed] In the 1901 season, Tyldesley scored 3,041 runs, finishing as the country's top run-scorer in the county championship.

Tyldesley scored 245 runs including a "superb" 138 in four and a half hours at Edgbaston was critical in placing England in a winning position.

Rain caused the pitch to deteriorate badly on the third day and Australia were all out for 122, of which Victor Trumper scored 74.

[14] England's captain Pelham Warner said of Tyldesley's 62 that "surely a better innings has never been played on a bad wicket".

Though the 1905 Ashes series was his most successful with two centuries, from the following year Tyldesley gradually dropped out of the representative scene, playing his last Test in 1909.

With Reggie Spooner rarely available owing to business calls between 1907 and 1910, and Archie MacLaren declining, Lancashire were much too dependent upon Tyldesley to make a respectable score and he played superbly especially when one considers the fire in Old Trafford pitches in fine weather at that time.

[16] Cardus agreed with Wisden that Tyldesley was exceptionally quick on his feet and therefore always seemed to have plenty of time in which to play his strokes.

Tyldesley was very strong, despite his small size, with quick reflexes and great flexibility in his wrists which assisted both his strokeplay and, when fielding, his throwing.

[15] He was a family man with wife Rachel Jane, son Arnold Clifford and daughter Edith Eleanor.

[19] Like some other cricket professionals including Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe, Tyldesley went into the sports goods business and opened a shop on Deansgate in central Manchester which he ran through the 1920s.

He died at his home in Monton on the morning of 27 November 1930 after he collapsed whilst putting on his boots before going to work at his shop on Deansgate.

[1] He was buried at Worsley Parish Church, his wife and children eventually being laid to rest in the same grave.