Quinton Tidswell

His father was at the time of his birth a prosperous and self-employed architect working from Challis House in Martin Place, Sydney.

His extended family were well known in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney where they owned the mansion Nugal Hall in Randwick[5] and the popular seaside Coogee Bay Hotel at Googee Beach.

As with his older siblings Frank and Noel, Tidswell was educated at Mosman Church of England Preparatory School.

Outside of school sport he is known to have competed in the Northern Suburbs Ping Pong Tournament which was held locally at the Mosman Memorial Hall.

[13] For tennis on asphalt and grass courts he used the Mosman Recreation Club where the Tidswell family were foundation members.

[16] After completing his schooling, at his father's insistence, Tidswell was articled to the Sydney law firm Colquhoun & King.

In 1932 Tidswell published a collection of lino-cut decorations of some of the oldest buildings in the historic township of Windsor, New South Wales.

[22] This book of engravings featured a foreword by his childhood Sydney friend Thomas James Dunbabin DSO (1911-55) who became a distinguished classicist and archaeologist and served as a member of the British Intelligence Corps during World War II.

[23] Tidswell's etchings, and those of fellow Old Newingtonian Hardy Wilson, of historic Sydney buildings such as Burdekin House[24] feature figures in quasi-Georgian costume.

[25] In works such as Old Philip Street Sydney[26] and Lewisham Loan Office[27] figures are clad in more contemporary dress.

Everything that this painter shows, whether oil, watercolour, drypolnt, or lino-cut, betokens a skilful command of the medium, a fineness of taste, and a liveliness of thought, which suggest rapid development in the future.