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UBANK, THOMAS, eldest son of Roger Ubank, St. Andrew’s, Holborn, stationer, and Elizabeth Bancks (IGI); b. 20 Jun 1712; adm. 1 May 1722; in under school list 1725; of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; d. 9 Jun 1774.

TYSSEN, WILLIAM HOUGHAM, brother of Charles Tyssen (qv); b. 3 Jan 1817; adm. 19 Jan 1827 (G); Ensign, 80th Foot 30 Jan 1835; Lieut., 23 Jun 1838; Capt., 86th Foot 27 Mar 1840; retd. 28 Jul 1843; d. unm. at St. Francis Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 28 Sep 1847.

TYSSEN, HENRY, brother of Charles Tyssen (qv); bapt. 13 Dec 1814; adm. 26 Jan 1826 (G); emigrated to Australia; practised as solicitor at Geelong, Victoria, from Nov 1840; d. unm. at Geelong 6 Mar 1842.

TYSSEN, CHARLES, eldest son of Samuel Tyssen, Narborough Hall, Norfolk, and Sophia, youngest dau. of John Baker, Deal, Kent; b. 5 Mar 1810; adm. 31 Jan 1823 (G); Ensign, 49th Foot 8 Apr 1826; Lieut., 75th Foot 17 Jan 1828; Capt., 15 Jun 1832; ret. 17 Feb 1837; of Weyhill, Hampshire; d. unm. 1 Dec 1863.

Tyson, Hampson John Philip, son of Eric James Tyson (qv); b. 23 Sept. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (A); left July 1934; RAFVR 1942 (FO); killed in action 19 Dec. 1942.

Hampson John Phillip Tyson was born at Balham, South London on the 23rd of September 1916 the son of Major Eric James Tyson DSO MC OW, Royal Flying Corps, and Cora Florence Gladys (nee Davies) Tyson of 4, Balham Park Road, Balham, later of “Rosemary”, Ashford Avenue, Worthing in Sussex. He was christened at St Mary’s Church, Balham on the 10th of December 1916. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from September 1929 to July 1931. He joined the Metropolitan Police as Police Constable 125385 on the 30th of March 1937 where he served in B Division (Westminster) and later left the police service to join the armed forces. He was married in Dorset in 1942 to Desiree Yvonne (nee Zunino) and they lived at “Stillwaters”, Chaddesley Green, Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth in Hampshire. They had a child.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of temporary Flight Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 4th of January 1942. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 1st of October 1942.
At 7.39am on the 19th of December 1942, Hampson Tyson and Pilot Officer O’Neill were briefed for a flight to the satellite airfield at Souk-el-Arba. They took off at 8.20am. At 4.45pm Pilot Officer O’Neill arrived back at Bone by road and reported that after landing at Souk-el-Arba that morning he was taxiing his aircraft when the oleo of his undercarriage had buckled due to the soft ground and both the propeller and the mainplane of his aircraft had been damaged.
Hampson Tyson had taken off from Souk-el-Arba at 12.30pm in Hurricane Mk IIC HV697 for the return flight to Bone in poor weather conditions. By 5.30pm that afternoon he had still not arrived and it was decided that in view of the weather and of the gathering darkness that a search and rescue flight would not be undertaken that night. The wreckage of his aircraft and his body was found the next day near Morriss. The cause of the crash is not known.
His father, Major Eric James Tyson DSO MC OW, 5 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, died of wounds on the 12th of March 1918.
He is buried at Bone War Cemetery Collective Grave VIII G 1-13.

Tyson, Eric James, only son of Joseph Tyson, of Balham, bursar at the school, by Annie, daughter of John Branson, of Rockingham, Northants; b. March 17, 1892; adm. May 4, 1905 (A); left July 1910; a motor engineer; enlisted in A.S.C. (M.T.) Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. R.F.C. Aug. 5, 1915; Flight Commander and Capt. June 23, 1916; Major Nov. 21, 1916; in command of No. 5 Squadron in France; mentioned in despatches; M.C. Oct. 20, 1916; D.S.O. Sept. 26, 1917; m. Cora Florence Gladys, daughter of Philip C. Davies, of Trinity Road, Ealham; d. March 11, 1918, of wounds received in action near Arras, France.

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.

TYRWHITT-DRAKE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (in school list 1764, qv); b. 21 Oct 1785; in school list 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 May 1803; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards (Blue) 5 Sep 1805; Lieut., 6 Aug 1807; Capt., 29 Aug 1811; Junior Maj., 22 Jun 1820, Senior Maj., 24 Jul 1823; Brevet Maj., 18 Jun 1815; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 22 Jun 1820; retired May 1826; served at battle of Waterloo; MP Amersham 21 Nov 1810-32; m. 22 Aug 1832 Emma, second dau. of Joseph Thompson Halsey MP, Great Gaddesden, Herts.; d. 21 Dec 1848.

TYRWHITT-DRAKE, THOMAS, second son of William Drake (adm. 1738, qv); b. ; in school list 1764 (Porten); left Whitsun 1767; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1767, aged 18; MA [sic, check] 1771; assumed surname of Tyrwhitt only 1776, but resumed his paternal name in addition to Tyrwhitt on inheriting Shardeloes estate, Amersham, Bucks. , from his father in 1796; MP Amersham from 4 Jun 1795; m. 8 Aug 1780 Anne, dau. of Rev. William Wickham, Garsington, Oxfordshire; d. 18 Oct 1810.