Arthur Tidman

Arthur Tidman (1792-1868) served many years as minister of the Congregational Church at the Barbican, London; he was one of many who pressed for the founding of the Congregational Union in 1831, serving as one of its first secretaries. He resigned as secretary in 1833 to begin his work with the LMS, assisting William Ellis for two years before sharing the office of Foreign Secretary with Joseph John Freeman, 1841-1846. Between 1846 and 1865, Tidman served alone as Foreign Secretary for the LMS. His final three years he shared secretarial duties with Joseph Mullens. See Congregational Year Book 24 (1869), 281-285; Richard Lovett, The History of the London Missionary Society 1795–1895, 2 vols. (London: Henry Frowde, 1899), 647.