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Dyer, John, 1699-1757
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1701-1757
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.