Career
Street Clair Tisdall served in a variety of positions for the duration of the Second World War and afterwards on the British Army on the Rhine. In 1960 he joined Headquarters Land Forces Persian Gulf at Bahrain. He retired from the army in 1965.
Street Clair Tisdall was born at Altrincham, Cheshire, the son of a churchman.
He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and subsequently read modern languages at Wadham College, Oxford.