Mr John Bidwell (1825/6–22 August 1873)

British civil servant. Bidwell was a clerk at the Foreign Office from Jan 1842 rising to Senior Clerk in April 1859. On 8 July 1862 he married Lady Selina Catherine Meade, daughter of Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam and Lady Elizabeth Herbert. He died aged 48 in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales.