Arthur Augustus Tilley

Arthur Augustus Tilley (1 December 1851 – 4 December 1942) was an academic of the University of Cambridge. An Old Etonian, his first subject at Cambridge was Classics, after which he began a career as a barrister. He returned to his old college to teach Classics, going on to specialise in French literature and becoming both a literary critic and a historian.

Tilley is remembered at Cambridge for resisting the modernisation of behaviour and dress which he observed, describing the new elements in his college as 'bounders'.

Tilley was the only child of Sir John Tilley, Secretary to the General Post Office, by his marriage to Mary Ann Partington, who was his second wife. Tilley's father had been married firstly, in 1839, to Cecilia Trollope, a favourite sister of the novelist Anthony Trollope, who sometimes stayed with the Tilleys in Cumberland. Cecilia Tilley had died in 1849, having had five children, of whom four died soon after her. In 1861 Tilley's father married thirdly Susannah Anderson Montgomerie, with whom he had one daughter and two further sons, Tilley's half brothers: William George Tilley, born in 1863, and John Anthony Cecil Tilley, later a British ambassador, born in 1869.

The young Tilley was educated at Eton, where he was celebrated as "Scholar of the Year" for 1871, winning both the Newcastle scholarship for Classics and the Tomline scholarship for Mathematics. He went on to King's College, Cambridge, where in 1875 he came second in the Classical Tripos. He was then admitted to the Inner Temple, studied for a career in the law, and was called to the Bar.

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