John Tilley

Sir John Tilley KCB (20 January 1813 – 18 March 1898) was Secretary to the General Post Office of the United Kingdom. Early life and family Tilley's father had died before he was born. His mother was Elizabeth Fraser, daughter of Thomas Fraser of Lane Son & Fraser (sometimes spelt 'Frazer'). He was educated privately at Bromley, Kent. Career Tilley entered the service of the General Post Office on 11 February 1829 as a clerk in the Secretary's Office in Lombard Street, London, having been nominated by a friend of his mother, the then Secretary, Francis Freeling, and appointed to the Secretary's office by the Postmaster General, the Duke of Manchester. He remained with the Post Office throughout his working life, rising from clerk to Secretary, the position he held on his retirement at the age of sixty-seven in 1880.