There, on 18 December 1898, a window was dedicated in his memory. Marriages and children On 4 February 1839 Tilley married Cecilia Frances Trollope at St Mary's, Bryanston Square. Marriage record in parish register of St Mary's Church, Bryanstone Square She was the daughter of Thomas Anthony Trollope and of Frances Trollope and the sister of Anthony Trollope. They had five children, of whom only one survived to adulthood. Frances Trollope Tilley (1839–1851) Cecilia Isabel Tilley (1840–1850) Ann Jane Tilley (1842–1850) Arthur William Tilley (1845–1850) Edith Diane Mary Tilley (1846–1925) John and Cecilia Tilley lived for a number of years at Carlton Hill, Penrith, having purchased the property from Cecilia's mother. When they returned to London in 1848, they lived at Allen Place where Cecilia Tilley died on 4 April 1849. On 18 May 1850, Tilley married secondly, at Kensington, Mary Anne Partington, the daughter of Thomas Partington and of Penelope Ann Trollope, so a first cousin of Cecilia Frances Trollope. They had one child, Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851–1942), a Classical scholar who became a lecturer in Roman History at King's College, Cambridge, and a historian. Mary Anne Tilley died 3 weeks after the birth of their son in 1851, and on 7 February 1861 Tilley married thirdly Susannah Anderson Montgomerie, the daughter of William Eglinton Montgomerie of Annick Lodge and Greenville, Ayrshire, by his marriage to Susanna Fraser Anderson, and a granddaughter of Alexander Montgomerie. in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. They had three children: Cecilia Montgomerie Tilley (1862–1868) William George Tilley (1863 – 28 June 1887) John Anthony Cecil Tilley (1869–1952), who joined the Foreign Office and became British Ambassador to Brazil and later Japan. Dame Susannah Anderson Tilley died on 4 March 1880. Death After a long illness, Tilley died on 18 March 1898 at his home, 73 St George's Square, London, where he had lived since 1856. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, near Earl's Court in South West London, with his third wife, Susannah. Honours 1871: Companion of the Order of the Bath 1880: Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath References 1813 births 1898 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath