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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3571, 7 June 1880, Page 2

Mr John Tilley, Secretary of ttos» General Post Office, on whom Her '"' Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Ciril Ditision, on account of his serrioes in eonneotion with Post Office, is a *on of the late Mr John Tilley, merchant, of London. He wai born about the year .1813, and entered the serrice as a clerk, under the auspices of the late Sir Francis Freeling, in 1829. . He rose steadily through the rarious grades of his department, and in March, . 1864, was promoted to the Chief Secretaryship, on the retirement of the late Sir Rowland Hill. He* was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath, Ciril Dirision,.in 1871. Sir John Tilley has been three times married—first,. to a daughter of Mr Thomas Anthony TroN lope, of Lincoln's-ino; secondly to a daughter of Mr Thomas Partington, of Offbam House, Sussex; and thirdly, to to Sussanah, daughter of Mr William Montgomerie, of Anniek Lodge, Ayrshire. ■■-■/■'.'.,::: The play was at its height iv the cardroom of a, well-known club, and from a distant corner was heard, " We are two' to two." "By Jove! we are two to two, too." responded a player at an adjoining . , table. No Wonder that a German there present likened our language to a French horn.