There is some doubt about his identity, but it is considered probably that this is the Thomas Tidy who made his only first-class appearance against the Gentlemen of the MCC during the 1868 Canterbury Cricket Week.
[2] Tidy married Mary Mann, a widow, at East Grinstead in 1877, the daughter of a family of inn keepers from Tunbridge Wells.
By 1891 the couple were living at Brighton with Mary running The Eastern Hotel in the town.
Tidy drowned in 1892 at Aldrington near Brighton with the circumstances of his death unknown.
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