Thomas Dyer

Bef 1744 - 1800  (> 56 years)

• Name	Thomas Dyer  [1]
  Baptism	14 Jul 1444  [2]
  Birth	Bef 4 Jul 1744  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	4 Jul 1744  [1]
  Death	16 Aug 1800  [2]
  Burial	16 Aug 1800  [3]
  Person ID	I16987	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Sir Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, 5th Baronet Dyer,   b. 4 Mar 1695   d. 4 Oct 1780 (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Jones   d. Between 13 Jan 1777 and 6 Aug 1777
  Marriage	25 Sep 1735	St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1, 4]
  Family ID	F10363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Smith,   b. 12 Dec 1740   d. Aug 1775 (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	29 Nov 1768	St. Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Maj.-Gen. Sir John Dyer, K.C.B.,   b. 5 Feb 1772   d. 2 Jul 1816, Woolwich, London, England (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F10360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He is described as "of Park Street" (in London) and as "of the Treasury." He was involved for many years in intricate machinations in connection with his father-in-law Richard Smith's much-litigated-over estate, frequently to the detriment of his sister-in-law, the poet and novelist Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749-1806). From 1784 to 1788, his older brother, the sixth Dyer baronet, John Swinnerton Dyer (1738-1801) was a trustee of the Smith estate. He is described by Judith Phillips Stanton, editor of The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith (citation details below), as "a troublesome brother-in-law instrumental in delaying the settlement of (Richard Smith's) will." In a letter to William Davies, 24 Mar 1797, Charlotte Smith herself describes Thomas Dyer as "the Man who has been one of [Charlotte's children's] principal robbers and torments to them & me". (And in a letter written on 8 Dec 1791, she describes his brother John Swinnerton Dyer, the sixth baronet, as "that detestable cream colourd Dyer.")

  
  

• Sources

  [S2179] E. H. Martin, "Swinnerton-Dyer Family." Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 10:307; 10:341, 1907; 11:24, 1908. [S4313] The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith ed. Judith Phillips Stanton. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003. [S2176] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003. [S2176] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003., date only. [S90] Stirnet.com, by Peter Barns-Graham., date only. [S4313] The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith ed. Judith Phillips Stanton. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003., date only.