page_title: John Tilley (civil servant)
section_title: Charitable and public work
hierarchical_section_title: John Tilley (civil servant) / Charitable and public work
caption_attribution_description: English: Bottom right hand corner of the window dedicated on December 18th 1898 to Sir John Tilley KCB. Located in St Saviour, Pimlico, London.
context_page_description: Sir John Tilley KCB was Secretary to the General Post Office of the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: Having retired from the Post Office, Tilley did not retire from public life.  For fifteen years he was a member of the Board of Guardians of St George's, Hanover Square, of which he became vice-chairman and later chairman. He also chaired the Relief Committee, engaged in the distribution of outdoor relief to the deserving poor, and the Fulham Road Workhouse Committee, responsible for the care and conduct of one of the largest workhouses in the country.
  He was a Manager and member of the finance committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, a Manager of the West London Schools, and in 1891 Chairman of the Eastern Hospital, during an Inquiry into maladministration at the hospital.
  He was also Treasurer of the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution, in which he took a special interest, and was also a Justice of the Peace for London and Middlesex.
  In January 1889, Tilley was nominated to the first London County Council.
  For many years, he was one of the churchwardens of St Saviour, Pimlico, in St George's Square, while the Rev. Henry Washington was vicar. There, on 18 December 1898, a window was dedicated in his memory.
caption: Sir John Tilley dedication in St Saviour, Pimlico
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