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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.

Frost, Richard Aylmer, son of Robert Frost, barrister-at-law, and Alexandra, d. of Alexander Rose of Streatham; b. 29 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (G); left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1924, BA 1928, MA 1950; Fellow Harvard Univ. 1928; RAFVR (A & SD) in WW2 (Flt Lieut.), MBE Jan. 1944; British Council East Africa, OBE Jan. 1952; DPhil (Oxon.) 1973; author of The British Commonwealth and World Society 1947, Race Against Time 1978, Historic Oxford 1984; m. 1 Sept. 1938 Alice, d. of V. B. Reichwald; d. 5 Mar. 1995.