Thomas Tickler

Tommy Tickler (30 September 1852 – 19 January 1938)[1] was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician from Grimsby in Lincolnshire.

[2][3] He established his own fruit growers and preservers business, serving as Managing Director (MD) of T.G.

Tickler Ltd, which operated from Grimsby and Southall, and was also MD of Heathcote Pottery Ltd of Swadlincote[3] in Derbyshire.

[6] From a small grocery business established in 1877, Tickler soon ran one of the largest factories in Grimsby, producing jam and marmalade.

[6] A song about Tickler's Jam was popular with British troops in the trenches, and is nostalgically sung by Robert Graves in one interview.