Brigadier General William Burton Tylden (8 April 1790 – 22 September 1854) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served for 43 years at home and abroad.
[1] Tylden was commanding royal engineer, under Lord William Bentinck, at the siege of Santa Maria in the Gulf of Spezzia, and at its capture on 29 March 1814, and was thanked in general orders for his exertions.
He was thanked in general orders, mentioned in despatches (London Gazette, 8 May 1814), and on 23 June received promotion for his services to the brevet rank of major.
In 1815 he organised and commanded a train of eighty pontoons, with which he took part in the operations of the allies, the march to and capture of Paris, and the occupation of France.
He arrived at Constantinople on the 12th of that month, and on the 21st was made a brigadier-general on Lord Raglan’s staff and commanding royal engineer of the army.
Lord Raglan in his despatch referred to him as being ‘always at hand to carry out any service I might direct him to undertake.’ He was taken ill with virulent cholera on the night of 21 September, and died on the evening of the 22nd.
He had two sons by his first wife, William, curate of Stanford, Kent, and Richard Tylden (1819–1855) who followed his father into the Royal Engineers[1] and was on his staff in Crimea.