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Mr. Acton Tindal. - Mr. Tindal, of the Manor House, Aylesbury, died on the 26th October, 1850, in the seventieth year of his age. He was the eldest son of the late Thomas Tindal, Esq., of the Prebendal House, Aylesbury, Clerk of the Peace, and Treasurer of the County of Buckingham, who died in 1850; his mother being the daughter of Acton Chaplin, Esq., of Aylesbury, also Clerk of the Peace and Treasurer of the County. His grandfather was Robert Tindal, of Coval Hall, Chelmsford, who died in 1835, and who married the only daughter of John Pocock, Esq., of Greenwich, leaving issue (inter alia) Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Kt., D.C.L., sometime His Majesty's Solicitor-General, and afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and Thomas Tindal, Esq., of Aylesbury. Mr. A. Tindal married Henrietta Euphemia, only surviving child of the late Rev. J. Harrison, Vicar of Dinton, and has left issue Nicolas, Acton Giffard, Charles Harrison, and Margaret Sabina. Mr. Tindal has been associated with the County and with the town of Aylesbury for a very long period; as early as the year 1834, as Clerk to the Magistrates at Aylesbury, and afterwards, on the resignation of his father, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Buckingham, which office he held forty-two years. He also held the office of Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham. At the formation of the Aylesnury Poor Law Union, in 1835, Mr. Tindal was appointed Clerk, an office he held for three years, but, resigned in the year 1838. Notwithstanding the various public labours incumbent on him, Mr. Tindal did not shrink from his share of duties as a parishioner. As a member of the Aylesbury Board of Guardians, Chairman of the Local Board of Health, the Burial Board, as Churchwarden, as a Trustee of Bedford's Charity, Trustee of the Savings' Bank, and in other local public offices, he always rendered his ready assistance, and uniformly gave the greatest satisfaction in the performance of any duties he had undertaken. In the year 1849, he became Lord of the Manor of Aylesbury, with its appurtenances. The Manor came into the public market, amongst the other estates of the late Duke of Buckingham, and was purchased by Mr. Tindal. On the purchase of the Manor, the new Lord made a present of the public clock to the town of Aylesbury, which for some years was the well-known authentic time keeper, erected on the turret, of the late Market House, and which now performs a like useful duty in the present Clock tower, the foundation stone of which building was laid by the late Mrs. Tindal in 1876. On the occasion of Mr. Tindal becoming Lord of the Manor, and his presentation of the town clock, a public complimentary dinner was given to him, which was largely attended by the residents of the town and neighbourhood. Records of Buckinghamshire, or, Papers and notes on the history, Vol. 5, p. 243.