A customs official who supervised the tide-waiters. So Tide-supervisor.
1684. E. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Eng., II. (ed. 15), 243. Stephen Chuseman, Tide Supervisor of all the Tide Surveyors on the River of Thames.
1725. Lond. Gaz., No. 6390/7. John Etheridge, Gent. … Tide Surveyor of His Majesty’s Customs.
1806. in J. Smyth, Pract. of Customs (1821), 145. The articles to be guarded from and to the Ships, and an account to be taken of them by the Tide-waiters, under the special superintendence of the Tide-surveyors.
1892. Pall Mall G., 24 March, 6/3. For many years tide surveyor and harbour-master at Pakhoi.
