DYER, JOHN, second son of Robert Dyer, Aberglasney, Carmarthenshire, solicitor, and Elizabeth Bennet; bapt. 28 Oct 1701; at school under Freind (Johnson, Lives of the Poets, ed. Hill, iii, 343); went into his father’s office, but soon abandoned law for art; an itinerant artist in South Wales; a pupil of the painter Jonathan Richardson; visited Italy to study painting 1724-5; ordained 1741; Rector of Catthorpe, Leics., 30 Apr 1742-51; Rector of Belchford, Lincs., 1751-5; Rector of Coningsby, Lincs., from 1752; Rector of Kirkby-on-Bain, Lincs., from 1755; LLB Cambridge 1752; FSA 1741; author, Grongar Hill, 1727, and other poems; m. 11 Apr 1738 (IGI) Sarah, widow of John Hawkins, and dau. of James Ensor, Wilnecote, Warwickshire (now Staffordshire); buried at Coningsby, Lincs. 15 Dec 1757. DNB.
DYER, SIR JOHN, brother of Richard Swinnerton Dyer (qv); b. 5 Feb 1772; adm. 26 Jun 1780; Gent. -Cadet, Royal Artillery 5 Mar 1787; 2nd Lieut., 24 Apr 1793; 1st Lieut., 1 Jan 1794; Capt. -Lieut., 1 Jun 1798; Capt., 9 Apr 1803; Brevet Maj., 25 Jul 1810; Maj., 17 Mar 1812; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 12 Apr 1814; Lieut. -Col., 20 Dec 1814; KCB 12 Apr 1815; served Peninsular War 1812-4; m. 14 Mar 1795 Jane, dau. of Simon Halliday, Westcombe Park, Kent, banker; d. 3 Jul 1816, from the effects of a carriage accident at Woolwich.
DYER, JOHN; b.; in school lists 1780-1, 1785-6; executed at Newgate for forgery 5 Aug 1790, at age of 19.
Dyer, Paul Geoffrey, son of George Dyer, Southern Rly official, and Alberta Gladys, d. of Edward Pritchard Cooke of Leominster, Heref; b. 12 Dec. 1930; adm. Jan. 1945 (B); left July 1946; dir. A. G. Noble Ltd., Chelsea; m. 2 July 1955 Aoife Maire Seosainhin Deamhneat, d. of Cicoran o’Conaill of Boyerstown, Co. Meath, Ireland; d. 24 Sept. 1969.
DYER, RICHARD SWINNERTON, eldest son of Thomas Dyer, Senior Clerk, Treasury, and his first wife Mary, widow of William Berney, Barbados, and dau. of Richard Smith, merchant; b. 17 Sep 1769; adm. 17 Jun 1778; Supernumary Clerk, Treasury, 22 Dec 1786 – Aug 1787, Junior Clerk from 15 Aug 1787; d. 17 Dec 1794.
DYER, SIR THOMAS RICHARD SWINNERTON, BART., son of Col. Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, Bart., 1st Foot Guards, and Susannah, dau. of Henry Vickery, Windsor, Berks.; b. 5 Feb 1768; adm. 2 Apr 1777; Ensign, 100th Foot 25 Dec 1781; Lieut., 7th Foot 28 Jun 1783; Capt., 14th Foot 4 May 1791; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 27 Apr 1793; Adjutant 1st batt., 23 May 1794; Brevet Maj., 1 Jan 1798; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 23 Oct 1799; Lieut. -Col., 14th Foot 1 Oct 1807; Royal York Rangers, 31 Mar 1808; Col. in the Army 25 Oct 1809; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1812 [check]; Lieut. -Gen., 27 May 1825; served in Flanders 1793 and on expedition to the Helder 1799; ADC to Sir Ralph Abercrombie in Egypt 1800-1; on military mission to Spain 1808; succ. father as 7th baronet 21 Mar 1801; m. 14 Apr 1814 Elizabeth, only dau. of James Standerwicke, Ovington House, Hants.; d. 12 Apr 1838.
DYER, SIR THOMAS SWINNERTON, BART., brother of Richard Swinnerton Dyer (qv); b. 6 Oct 1770; adm. 26 Jun 1780; entered Royal Navy 1782; Lieut., 29 Jun 1793; Commander 12 Jul 1810; served at relief of Gibraltar 1782, occupation of Toulon, action in Tunis Bay, and on Hotham’s second action 1795; as Lieut. on HMS Vesuvius, commanded one of the boats in attack on flotilla at Boulogne 1805; out-pensioner, Greenwich Hospital 24 Apr 1837; succeeded his cousin as 8th baronet 12 Apr 1838; m. 11 Apr 1814 Mary Davis; d. 27 Mar 1854.
DYER, THOMAS, son of Matthew Dyer, Great Chapel Street, Westminster, a clerk in the Excise Office, and Janet ---; b. 3 Nov 1760; adm. 14 Mar 1768; BB; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jun 1778, aged 17, scholar on Bishop Williams’s foundation 9 Nov 1779, matr. Mich. 1778; BA 1782; MA 1785; ordained deacon (Winchester) 25 Sep 1785, priest (Lincoln, lit. dim. from Rochester) 23 Sep 1787; Curate, East Tisted, Hants. 1785; Vicar of Norton Abbots, Worcs., from 15 May 1828; d. 15 Mar 1840.
DYER, THOMAS, brother of John Dyer (at school under Freind, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1717; Min. Can. 1718; KS 1719; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 - void 25 Mar 1738 (expiry year of grace as R. Bedhampton from 22 Apr 1736 (sic)); BA 1727; MA 1730; LLD; ordained priest (Oxford) 1 Jun 1729; Rector of Bedhampton, Hampshire, from 19 Apr 1736; Yeoman of the Almonry; lic. to m. 11 Jan 1739/40 Dorothy, sister of William De La Place (qv); d. 1780.
DYKE, SIR JOHN DIXON, BART., brother of Thomas Dyke (qv); b. 23 Nov 1732; adm. May 1744 (Ludford's); left 1747; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Mar 1749/50; succ. father as 3rd baronet 20 Aug 1756; m. 3 May 1756 Philadelphia Payne, dau. of George Horne, East Grinstead, Sussex; d. 6 Sep 1810.