Paul Frederick Tidman

Tidman, Paul Frederick, was born 1836, and lived in the East from 1852 to 1864, some time with Rajah Brooke in Sarawak. From 1865 to his death he was partner in an East India firm in Leadenhall St., London. In 1888 he was made C.M.G. in recognition of his services to the Straits Settlements. He died Jan 27, 1889, at Chiselhurst, Kent. Under the name of Mark Evans he published a number of religious books for children, charmingly written from an "undogmatic" standpoint. His hymn:
Father, dearest Father, Now the sun his come. [Morning] is in his Story of our Father's love, 1873, p. 160. It is repeated in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and others, sometimes as "Father, Holy Father." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)