Major-General Thomas Holmes Tidy (c.1808 – 1 July 1874) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Eastern District.

[1] Frank Tidy was the son of Reverend Thomas Holmes Tidy (1766–), chaplain to His Majesty's 26th regiment of foot, and Henrietta Augusta Skelly (1766–).

[2] Thomas Tidy's son was British soldier, Australian jackaroo and tutor, journalist, and minister of religion Gordon Tidy (c.

[3] Tidy was commissioned as an ensign in the 14th Regiment of Foot on 14 April 1825.

[4] He became Deputy Adjutant-General in Jamaica in the late 1850s,[5] Assistant Adjutant General at Horse Guards in the early 1860s[6] and General Officer Commanding Eastern District in April 1866.