Tilney and Tylney are surnames of English origin. They may refer to:

People

Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Agnes Howard (née Tilney) (c. 1477 – May 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Two of King Henry VIII's queens were her step-granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Katherine Howard was placed in the Do ...

, (''née'' Tilney; 14771545), English noblewoman *

Colin Tilney Colin Graham Tilney (31 October 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a British-Canadian harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher. He is well known for his historically-informed approach to performance practice, performing on original or copied ins ...

(1933–2024), British-Canadian harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher *

Edmund Tylney Sir Edmund Tilney or Tylney (1536–1610) was a courtier best known now as Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI. He was responsible for the censorship of drama in England. He was also instrumental in the development of Eng ...

(also Tilney, 15361610), courtier to Elizabeth I of England, and Master of the Revels *

Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (before 1445 – 4 April 1497) was an English heiress who became the first wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (when still Earl of Surrey). She served successively as a lady-in-waiting to two Quee ...

(before 14451497), English heiress and lady-in-waiting to two queens * Sir

Frederick Tilney Sir Frederick Tilney (died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire, England, was the husband of Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say and father of Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey. He is notably the great-grandfather of Anne ...

(died 1445) Lord of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire *

John Tilney Sir John Dudley Robert Tarleton Tilney, (19 December 1907 – 26 April 1994) was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree from 1950 until his retirement at the February 1974 general election. ...

(19071994), British businessman and politician * Robert Tilney (1903–1981), British Army officer who served during World War II * William S. Tilney (born 1939), American public official, lawyer and diplomat

Places

* Thorpe Tilney, hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire, England *

Tilney All Saints Tilney All Saints is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 563 in 230 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 573 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls w ...

, civil parish in the English county of Norfolk * Tilney St Lawrence, village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk

Business

* Tilney (company)

Literature

Henry Tilney Henry Tilney is the leading man in Jane Austen's 1817 novel ''Northanger Abbey''. The younger son of a local landowner, Tilney is comfortably placed as a beneficed clergyman on his father's estate. Character Tilney, with his teasing yet kind-hear ...

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Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' ( ) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic fiction, Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title page is dated 1818 and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with ''Persuasio ...

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