Tyler, Eric Douglas, son of Henry Herbert Tyler, shoe factor, of Leicester, and Agnes Cleopatra, d. of Frederic Sharpe of Sileby, Leics.; b. 30 Mar. 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (B); left Dec. 1934; dyeing industry; Flt Sgt RAF Bomber Command, killed in action over Germany 8 July 1941.

Eric Douglas Tyler was born at Leicester, Leicestershire on the 30th of March 1917 the son of Henry Herbert Tyler, a shoe factory manager and company director, and Agnes Cleopatra (nee Sharpe) Tyler of “High Barn”, The Broadway, Stoughton Drive, South Oadby in Leicestershire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from January 1931 to December 1934. On leaving school he worked in the dyeing industry. He was serving a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the outbreak of war and was later promoted to Flight Sergeant.
On the night of the 12th/13th of May 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 42 Wellingtons, 41 Hampdens, 17 Whitley and 4 Manchesters for an operation on Mannheim and Ludwigshaven. It is thought that only 10 aircraft from the attacking force had bombed the two targets with damage being light. 5 people were killed on the ground during the raid with a further 3 injured. 26 aircraft reported that they had bombed alternative targets with Cologne reporting industrial buildings and an army barracks being hit with the death of 92 soldiers at the barracks.
Eric Tyler and his crew took off from RAF Waddington at 10pm on the 12th of May 1941 in Hampden Mk I X2982 KM - for the operation. Having completed their mission they were returning to base the aircraft was diverted to another airfield to the north. During this leg of their journey the aircraft ran out of fuel and the crew were forced to bail out. The aircraft crashed at 6.52am close to Catterick Bridge.
The crew was: -
Sergeant Eric Douglas Tyler (Pilot) (Killed in action 8th July 1941)
Sergeant Charles Forrest Greig (2nd Pilot) (Killed on active service 19th June 1941)
Sergeant Kenneth George Betts (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) (Killed in action 8th July 1941)
Sergeant Campbell (Wireless Operator)
On the night of the 8th/9th of July 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 45 Hampdens and 28 Whitleys for an operation on the railway marshalling yards at Hamm. In the event only 31 aircraft reported to have bombed the target.
Eric Tyler and his crew took off from RAF Waddington at 10pm on the 8th of July 1941 in Hampden Mk I AE153 KM- for the operation. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after takeoff and it is thought to have crashed into the sea with the loss of the entire crew.
The crew was: -
Sergeant Foster Wilson Black (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Eric Douglas Tyler (Pilot)
Sergeant Mortimer Livis RCAF (Observer)
Sergeant Kenneth George Betts (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of seven aircraft which were lost during the operation.
Foster Black’s body found in the sea by the German Patrol Boat 1207 on the 18th of August 1941 and was recovered. After identification, it was recommitted to the sea with full military honours.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 37.

TYLER, ROPER TREVOR, third son of Adm. Sir Charles Tyler GCB, Royal Navy, and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Alexander Leach, Corston, Pembrokeshire; b. 19 Apr 1801; adm. 19 Jan 1816 (Best's); left 9 Aug 1820; Univerrsity Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jan 1820; BA 1823; MA 1827; ordained deacon (Bristol) 1824, priest (Llandaff) 1825; Domestic Chaplain to William IV when Duke of Clarence; Rector of Merthyr Dovan, Glamorgan 1828; Rector of Wenvoe, Glamorgan 15 Nov 1828; Rector of St. Nicholas, Glamorgan 7 Mar 1833; Vicar of Mynachllogddu, Pembrokeshire, from 1 Nov 1836; Rector of Llantrithyd, Glamorgan, from 14 Jul 1838; JP Glamorgan; m. 9 Aug 1838 Isabel Bruce, dau. of John Bruce Bruce-Pryce, Dyffryn, Glamorgan; d. 19 Feb 1885.

TYLER-SMITH, GIULIO COWLEY, son of William Tyler-Smith MD, Upper Grosvenor Street, London, and Tryphena, dau. of J. Yearsley, Southwick Place, Tewkesbury, Gloucs.; b. 2 May 1849; adm. 26 Jan 1863 (G); a tea and coffee merchant, firm John Cassell & Co., Fenchurch Street, London; m.; d. 22 Jul 1909.

TYRER, RALPH; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1572, adm. scholar 1573, matr. Mich. 1572; BA 1576/7; MA 1580 (incorp. Oxford 12 Jul 1580); BD 1587; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1579- c. 1593, Junior Dean 1589-90, Senior Dean 1590-1, 1592-3; ordained priest (Lincoln) May 1586; Vicar of Exton, Bucks., 1586; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds., 1587; Vicar of Chesterton, Cambs., 1590-3; Vicar of Kendal, Westmorland, from 1592; in the event of his only son John dying under age, he provided in his will for the foundation of a scholarship at Trinity Coll. for those educated at St. Paulís or Westminster, but there is no evidence that Trinity Coll. received any money under the terms of this bequest; lic. to m. 28 Oct 1592 Mary, dau. of John Harrison, St. Michael le Querne, London, citizen and stationer; d. 4 Jun 1627.

Tyrrell, Timothy Martin, son of Francis Astley Cooper Tyrrell FRCS and Nellie, d. of George Mabett, shipowner, of Cardiff; b. 14 May 1908; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left July 1926; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1926, BA 1929; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1932, MB BCh 1933; FRCS 1935; an ophthalmic surgeon; Royal Eve Hosp. 1936; Hunterian Prof. RCS 1944; m. 25 Apr. 1936 Beryl Mary Gwendoline, sister of Gerald Arnele Temple Stenning (qv); d. 2 Mar. 1968.

Tyrrell, Timothy Robert, son of Timothy Martin Tyrrell (qv); b. 23 Sept. 1942; adm. May 1956 (W); left Dec. 1956; d. 1995.

Tyrwhitt, Cuthbert, son of Thomas Tyrwhitt ARIBA, of Fulham, and Dorothy Nina, d. of Reginald Godfrey Marsden, barrister-at-law; b. 11 Apr. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1930; 2nd Lieut. Worcs. Regt Jan. 1932, Lieut. Jan. 1935, retd Mar. 1936; regazetted Sept. 1939 (Capt.); m. 23 Mar. 1936 Delia Gurnee, d. of Edward Norman Scott of New York; killed in action (Singapore) 15 Feb. 1942.

Cuthbert Tyrwhitt was born at Hampstead, London on the 11th of April 1912 the younger son of Thomas Tyrwhitt ARIBA, an architect, and Dorothy Nina (nee Marsden) Tyrwhitt of 4, North Court, Great Peter Street in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1925 to July 1930. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Corporal in September 1929. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment on the 28th of January 1932. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 28th of January 1935 and he resigned his commission on the 21st of March 1936.
He was married at the British Consulate at 10, Ma Ta Jen Hutung, Peiping in China on the 23rd of March 1936 to Delia Gurnee (nee Scott later Lane), an author, of Greenwich, Connecticut.
On leaving the army he returned to London where he joined the Diplomatic Service and lived at 4, North Court, Great Peter Street, London SW1.
Following the outbreak of war he was recalled to his Regiment on the 9th of September 1939 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In December 1939 he was posted to Singapore where he was attached to the Far East Combined Intelligence Bureau as an Intelligence Officer. He was tasked with creating a card index of security information which was being gathered from intercepted communications between Japanese consular officials and their attachés in Singapore, Hong Kong and their bases in Japan.
Following the Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 and subsequent assault on the island of Singapore in February 1942 Cuthbert Tyrwhitt was reported to have been killed in action and buried at the British Headquarters at Fort Canning on the day that Singapore surrendered.
In October 1947, his wife donated the sum of £150 towards the Westminster School War Memorial Fund in his memory.
He is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial Column 67.

TYRWHITT-DRAKE, EDWARD, third son of Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (at school under Vincent, qv); b. 16 May 1832; adm. 1 Jul 1846 (G); left Whitsun 1849; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Oct 1849, matr. Mich. 1850; migrated to Magdalene Coll. 15 Oct 1851; BA 1854; MA 1857; played cricket for Cambridge Univ. 1852-4, Gentlemen v. Players 1854-9, 1864; the best amateur lob bowler of his day, and a slashing hitter; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both Oxford); Curate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks., 1860-3; Rector of Amersham with Coleshill, Bucks., from 1863; JP Buckinghamshire 1865; a very successful steeplechase rider, under the name of “Mr. Ekard”, and a keen follower of the Old Berkeley Hunt; d. 20 Jun 1904.

TYRWHITT-DRAKE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (at school under Vincent, qv); b. 14 Jul 1817; adm. 13 Jul 1831 (Stelfox's); at Harrow Sch. 1833-6; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1836; of Shardeloes, Amersham, Bucks.; Master, Bicester Foxhounds 1851-5, 1857-62, 1863-6; DL Buckinghamshire, High Sheriff 1859; JP Buckinghamshire 1839; m. 1st, 8 Aug 1843 Elizabeth Julia, widow of Col. Alexander Wedderburn, Inveresk, 2nd Foot Guards, and dau. of John Stratton, Farthinghoe, Northants; m. 2nd, 11 Aug 1887 Dorothy Emma, dau. of Rev. John Leyborne-Popham, Rector of Chilton Foliat, Wilts.; d. 24 Jul 1888.

Tyser, Peter Anthony, son of Grafton Leslie Tyser FSI (formerly Nash), Valuation Dept Board of Inland Revenue, and Mary, d. of Sam Wood of Wakefield, Yorks; b. 13 July 1916; adm. May 1930 (H); left July 1935; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1939; RAFVR (Med.) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr); DPH 1946, MB 1947, MD 1948; MRCGP 1956, FFCM 1974; County MO and prin­cipal School MO Cambs & Ely CC; later hon. consultant in Social and Preventative Medicine Fulbourn and Ida Darwin Hosps Camb., and United Camb. Hosps; m. 20 Nov. 1948 Christine Mary, d. of John M. Wallace CBE, of Haslemere, Surrey; d. 1 Oct. 2001.