Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, 9th Baronet Dyer

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• Alternate death: 2 Oct 1878

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He was a captain in the Royal Artillery, and a justice of the peace for Surrey.

"Sir Thomas Dyer resided chiefly at Brompton Hall, Middlesex, which he inherited from the Hallidays in the reign of George IV. It was a fine old Elizabethan house, panelled throughout with oak, containing secret rooms and passages, one leading to the Thames, surrounded by five acres of garden, and approached by a drive through immense iron gates up an avenue of elms. The South Kensington and Brompton Station on the Underground Railway now occupies the site, which Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer was obliged by the Railway Act of Parliament to sell greatly below its value. 'Dyerhaven,' Uckfield, Sussex, Sir Thomas built when Brompton Hall was demolished. Westcroft Park, Chobham, and 14 Redcliffe Square were his other residences." [E. H. Martin, citation details below.]

Sir married Mary Anne Clement on 7 Feb 1832 in Woolwich, London, England. Mary (daughter of Col. John Albeck Clement and Margaret Anne Le Maistre) died on 9 Feb 1880; was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He fought in the Crimean War. He was awarded the Order of the Medjidie. He was made Captain in the 17th and 75th Regiment, and also achieved the rank of honorary Major.

His second wife was his first cousin Francis Margaret Carr, a granddaughter of his grandfather John Albeck Clement.

Frederick married Selenah Maria Anne Richards on 6 Mar 1861 in St. James, Piccadilly, London, England. Selenah (daughter of Rev. Edward Windsor Richards and Caroline Susan Bennet) was born in 1834; died on 9 Nov 1867 in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Arno Vale Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Francis Margaret Carr on 19 Nov 1868 in Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, England. Francis (daughter of William Ogle Carr and Elizabeth Maria Clement) was born on 19 Sep 1840 in Uplands, Colombo, Ceylon; was christened on 10 Oct 1840 in Uplands, Colombo, Ceylon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Dec 1923, Stourton Sheringham, Norfolk, England

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He assumed the surname Bennet in 1894 upon inheriting property. As of 1908 he was a lieutenant in the Reserve Motor Volunteers. He appears to have subsequently gone as Frederick Stewart Hotham Bennet; it seems to have been the next generation that combined the two names.

Frederick married Adelaide Annie Taylor in Aug 1885 in Henfield, Sussex, England. Adelaide (daughter of George Taylor and Margaret) was born before 10 Apr 1864 in Brighton, Sussex, England; was christened on 10 Apr 1864 in St. Nicholas, Brighton, Sussex, England; died in Oct 1942 in Hove, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He gained the rank of Major in the Leicester Regiment. He fought in the First World War, where he was wounded twice.

Richard married Miriam Wolcott Clapp on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Miriam (daughter of Edward Bull Clapp and Mary Mattoon Wolcott) was born on 10 Nov 1890 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 30 May 1973 in Alameda, Alameda, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]