Tyndall
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.[citation needed] Another Barony of Tyndale (Radclyffe) was created in 1688, with the Earl of Derwenter, 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).
[edit] English branches and distinguished individuals
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.
A William Tyndall was Lancaster Herald under King Edward IV. A William Tyndall was made Knight Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath on 29 November 1489, on the creation of Prince Arthur as Prince of Wales under the reign of Henry VII. He was also Guisne Poursuivant (herald) extraordinary for Henry VII, and later Rouge Dragon. Another William Tyndale is known to have translated the Bible into English for Henry VIII, but later suffered execution on the Continent in 1536. Humphrey Tyndall was Dean of Ely in 1591, and died in 1614.
Tyndalls were also established with a seat at the Manor House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in the 19th century.
[edit] 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 Newcastle, County Dublin, Ireland, was a well-known physicist from Ireland, who discovered the Tyndall effect, explaining why the sky is blue (though usually not in Ireland). A relative, another John Tyndall of Newcastle ran a forge, 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 branches of the family have spread to Australia and the USA.
[edit] Tyndall-named institutions
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).
In the 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.
In New Zealand, the Tyndall name has lent itself to an important investment fund management enterprise. There is a Tyndall Air Force Base in the USA. A small municipality called the City of Tyndall, South Dakota, in the USA is the capital of Bon Homme County.
[edit] 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 Philisopher edited by W.H. Brock, N.D. McMillan and R.C. Mollan, Royal Dublin Society, 1981.
- Dublin Almanacks, 1830, 1840, & 1860.
