TYNDALL

Contents

Origins

Titled aristocracy

The Middle Ages and Tudor Periods

The Tindal/Tindal-Carill-Worsley Family

Irish branch and distinguished individuals

Tyndall-named institutions and places

References

External links

Origins

The Tyndalls are originally an Anglo-Scots family hailing from Tynedale in Northumberland, and who held estates in the English and Scottish Border Ridings. One Hadrian de Tyndale married Bethoc Canmore, grand-daughter of Duncan I Macdonagh, King of Scots around 1034-1040. By tradition they also claim Norman origins. The name is also sometimes spelt Tyndale, Tindall, Tyndall, or Tindal.

Titled aristocracy

Tynedale also lends its name famously to a Barony, the title Baron Scott of Tynedale in Northumberland, created in 1663 for the tragic Duke of Monmouth, and 1st Duke of Buccleuch, namely James Scott(Stuart), the alleged illegitimate son of King Charles II, and which titles were forfeited in 1685 upon his execution, but later restored with the Earl of Doncaster in 1743. However, it is also claimed that King James II, did not have him executed, and that he was exiled to France as the Man in the Iron Mask. Another Barony of Tyndale (Radclyffe) was created in 1688, with the Earl of Derwentwater, but forfeited in 1716.
The earliest feudal records indictate that Robert de Tynedale was the feudal Baron of South Tyne-dale and of Langeley/Langley Castle, both in the county of Northumberland. The Barony was originally held by his predecessor by the service of one knight's fee, in the time of Henry I of England of England. He was succeeded by his son, Adam, Baron de Tynedale and Langeley, who lived during the reign of Richard I of England, and paid 100 pounds for his relief, with livery of his land in 1194. He left two daughters, co-heirs, and the elder Philippa married Adam Nicholas de Bolteby and conveyed to her husband the Barony of South Tyne-dale. The Barony of Langley and its associated manor continue to modern times as an originally-feudal Prescriptive Barony (not a Peerage), and an extensive series of baronial and manorial records are maintained in the National Archives (UK).
Through marriage to the Felstead family, a Sir Thomas Tyndale became co-heir to the Barony of Scales, the daughter of the last Baron Scales having died without issue. He shared this distinction with the then Earl of Oxford.

The Middle Ages and Tudor Periods

Robert's other son, also called Robert, settled at Tansover in Northamptonshire in the time of Edward I. In the generations that followed to the present time the names William, John, Thomas, and David recur repeatedly.
From the earliest generations, the Tyndalls (known until the fifteenth century as 'de Tyndale'), were intimately connected with the Deane family. The first Robert de Tyndale's son married the heiress of that family and inherited the lands of Deane, in Northumberland, which remained in the family for many generations. The Deane arms have been quartered with those of Tyndale ever since and were adopted as the only arms of the Tindal branch of the family from the seventeenth century.
Subsequent Tyndales married well, inheriting the estates of Hockwald in Norfolk and Mapplestead Magna in Essex in marriages with heiresses of the de Montford and Fermor families. Several heads of the family were knighted and many appear to have been prominent at court. A William Tyndale was Lancaster Herald under King Edward IV. Sir William Tyndale of Hockwald and Deane was created Knight Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath on 29 November 1489, on the creation of Prince Arthur as Prince of Wales in the reign of Henry VII. He was also Guisne Poursuivant (herald) extraordinary for Henry VII, and later Rouge Dragon. His son, Sir Thomas Tyndale, was admitted to the Order of the Bath following the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn.
The most eminent member of the family was William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English and, with Shakespeare one of the more important figures in the evolution of the modern English language. His career, which involved a prodigious output of theological writing in addition to his translation, ended with his execution on the Continent in 1536. William Tyndale is known to have been the nephew of Edward Tyndale of Pull Court, Gloucestershire, receiver to the lands of Lord Berkeley. This Edward Tyndale is recorded in two genealogies (published in the ninth volume of the Literary Anecdotes of John Nichol and, under Tyndale of Haling, in 19th century editions of Burke's Landed Gentry) as having been the brother of Sir William de Tyndale of Deane and Hockwold, the then head of the family in England.
==The Tyndale Family and the Throne of Bohemia==
When King Richard II married Anne of Bohemia, daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, she brought with her her first cousin, Margaret of Treschen, daughter of Litvaticus, Duke of Treschen in modern Silesia by his wife Elizabeth, sister of Charles IV and daughter of John the Blind, King of Bohemia. This lady married Sir Roger de Felstead (or Bigod), of Felstead in Essex, a standard bearer at the coronation of Richard II and their daughter, Margaret, married Sir Thomas de Tyndale of Talsover and Deane.
It has already been related that, through the Felsteads, the Tyndales came to be co-heirs to the Barony of Scales with the Earls of Oxford. However, a more regal dignity descended through Margaret of Treschen when the House of Luxemburg died out with the death of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia (1368-1437) and Sir William Tyndale became one of the heirs to the elective throne of Bohemia. John Nicoll relates that a delegation of Bohemian boyars were sent to England to offer him the throne but that he refused, the Habsburgs succeeding to a throne they held (with one interruption) until 1918.
There was an oral tradition at the University of Cambridge that Dean Humphrey Tyndale, brother of Sir John Tyndale of Mapplestead and uncle (or great uncle) of the eminent deist Dr Matthew Tindal, was again offered the throne by the Protestant party in Bohemia in 1620. He again refused, leading to the ill-fated Frederick V, Elector Palatine (married to Sophie, daughter of James I and ancestor of the present Queen) becoming King for a year - a development that was a principle cause of the thirty years war.

The Tindal/Tindal-Carill-Worsley Family

The principle branch of the English Tyndale family, last seated at Mapplestead Magna in the 17th century, died out in the male line in the 17th century and in the female line over a hundred years later. The most senior English branch is thus the Tindal (now Tindal-Carill-Worsley) family, whose history is related in the 1973 volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. This family derived from Rev John Tindal, Rector of Bere Ferris, Devon, in the mid 17th century, said to have been the younger son of Sir John Tyndale of Mapplestead in John Nichol, the brother of Humphrey Tyndale, President of Queen College, Cambridge and Dean of Ely. There is, however, support for the contention that Rev. John was the son of Sir John's elder son Dean.
Rev John's son was Dr Matthew Tindal, the English deist, and his grandson, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin. Rev Nicolas's great grandson, Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, was Lord Chief Justice from 1829 to 1845. His great great grandson, Reginald Bosanquet was a well known broadcaster for ITN.
Sir Nicolas's youngest brother, Charles, a commander in the Royal Navy, is the ancestor of the Australian Tindals (although several Australian Tyndalls descend from the Irish branch of the family). His son, Charles Grant Tindal, was a successful businessman and landowner who settled at Ramorlie, New South Wales. Amongst his descendants was Wing Cmdr Archibald Tindal, the first Australian airman to be killed in the Second World War. An airbase in Northern Territory is named 'Tindal' in his honour.
Sir Nicolas ultimately left no descendants in the male line and members of the main branch of the English family descend from his brother, Thomas Tindal of Aylesbury, Clerk of the Peace for Buckinghamshire. His son, Acton Tindal, Lord of the Manor of Aylesbury, married Henrietta Euphemia Harrison, an eminent poet. Acton's son, Nicolas, married Elizabeth Carill-Worsley, heiress of Platt Hall near Manchester and the family adopted the name Tindal-Carill-Worsley. Elizabeth was a descendant of Erasmus Darwin and of Major General Charles Worsley of Platt, one of Oliver Cromwell's most important Lieutenants to whom was entrusted the Mace when Cromwell famously cried 'rid me of that bauble' in expelling the House of Commons in 1652.
The current head of the English family is Charles Tindal of Ballyloughan (he does not use 'Carill-Worsley'), son of Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley, a bomber pilot during theSecond World War and one of the organisers of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. His brother, Anthony, son, Matthew and niece and nephew William and Harriet together run Tindal Wines in England and Ireland (www.tindalwine.com, www.tindalwines.co.uk).
(See also Darwin - Wedgwood family)

Irish branch and distinguished individuals

A branch of the family settled in Ireland in the Middle Ages, and manuscript genealogical records of these exist in Trinity College Dublin. A William Tyndall is mentioned in the 1659 census as living in Duganstowne, Catherlagh (County Carlow), co-owned by him and a Richard Andrewes as tituladoes. Similarly, a John Tyndall came from Gloucestershire to Ireland during the Wars of Rebellion and had a grant of land confirmed to him in 1668. He married Isabelle de Rinzy of County Wexford.
Amongst the landed gentry in Ireland in the 1800s, Tyndalls appeared established with estates and seats at Ballyanne House, and Berkeley Forest, both in New Ross, County Wexford, and Prospect Hall, County Kilkenny, as well as in County Carlow, and Kildevin, County Westmeath, and Dublin City. Samuel Tyndall served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1826 to 1827.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) from Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, was a well-known physicist from Ireland, who discovered the Tyndall effect, explaining why the sky is blue. A relative, another John Tyndall of Newcastle ran a forge, coachmaking and saddlery, in the middle of the 1800s, and his grandson, David P. Tyndall (1890-1970), from Chapelizod, became a prominent Irish businessman in the 20th century, who founded the firm D. Tyndall & Sons, as well as several other companies, and consolidated and modernised the wholesale trade sector, introducing the SPAR chain into Ireland.
Other lines of the Irish branch of the family have spread to Australia and the USA.

Tyndall-named institutions and places

★ Ireland: In honour of physicist John Tyndall, the Tyndall National Institute was created in Ireland in 2004 at the initiative of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment and University College Cork (UCC) to bring together complementary activities in photonics, electronics and networking research at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC), several UCC academic departments and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).

★ UK: The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has locations in the University of East Anglia in Norwich, the University of Manchester, the University of Southampton, the University of Sussex in Brighton, Oxford University, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. A branch of the Tyndall family settled in Fort House, Bristol, and have given their name to many sites around the campus of the University of Bristol. There is a Tyndall lecture theatre and, nearby, a road named Tyndall Avenue.

★ New Zealand, The Tyndall name has lent itself to an important investment fund management enterprise.

★ USA: Tyndall Air Force Base, named for World War I flying ace, Lt. Frank B. Tyndall, is located in Bay County, Florida. The small City of Tyndall, South Dakota is the county seat of Bon Homme County.

★ Australia: The Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal, in the Northern Territory is named after Wing Cmdr Archibald Tindal, the first Australian airman to be killed in the Second World War (see above under Tindal/Tindal-Carill-Worsley family).

★ Canada: The town of Tyndall, Manitoba. Tyndall stone is the name of a limestone often used in construction and decoration in Manitoba.

★ A crater on Mars is named after John Tyndall.

References

★ ''Manuscript genealogies'': see MS. vols. F.3.23, F.3.27, F.4.18 in Trinity College Library, Dublin

★ ''The Book of Dignities'', by Joseph Haydn, 3rd edition, W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1894.

★ ''Fairbairn's Book of Crests of Families of Great Britain and Ireland'', by James Fairbairn, (2 Vols.) T.C. & E.C. Jack, London, 1905.

★ ''Prerogative Wills of Ireland (1536-1810) - Index'', by Sir Arthur Vicars, Dublin, 1897.

★ ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'', by John Burke, London, 1838.

★ ''Langley Barony Records'' at the National Archives (UK)(from ADM 74/3/11 of 13 Charles I to QCD/17 of 1954)

★ ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses'', by Mark Bence-Jones, Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1988. (pages 19 and 41).

★ ''Life and Work of John Tyndall'', by A.S. Eve and C.H. Creasey, Macmillan & Co., London, 1945.

★ ''John Tyndall – Essays on a Natural Philosopher'' edited by W.H. Brock, N.D. McMillan and R.C. Mollan, Royal Dublin Society, 1981.

★ ''Dublin Almanacks'', 1830, 1840, & 1860.

★ Dictionary of National Biography - entries include William Tyndale, Dr Matthew Tindal, Rev Nicolas Tindal, Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Henrietta (nee) Euphemia, Mrs Acton Tindal.

★ Burke's Landed Gentry: 19th century editions: Tyndale of Haling, Tindal of Chelmsford; Tindal-Carill Worsley of Platt (1973 edition)

★ Literary Anecdotes of John Nichol, Vol IX

External links

★ Tyndall National Institute (Ireland) [1]

★ Tyndall Center for Climatic Change Research (UK) [2]

★ Tyndall Air Force Base (USA) [3]

★ Tindal Wines: www.tindalwine.com, www.tindalwines.co.uk