Sir John Dyer, 6th Baronet
Colonel Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, 6th Baronet was a British soldier and courtier who was Groom of the Bedchamber to King George IV when Prince of Wales.
Early life
Dyer was born on 30 November 1738 into a family that originally hailed from Heytesbury, Wiltshire. John, who was baptised at Finchingfield, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyer, 5th Baronet and Elizabeth Jones.His paternal grandparents were Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Johnson. His brother, Thomas Dyer, married Mary Smith, and was the father of Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, Maj.-Gen. Sir John Dyer of the Royal Artillery, and Edward Dyer. Among his extended family were uncles Sir Swinnerton Dyer, 3rd Baronet and Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, 4th Baronet.
Career
Dyer, a Colonel in the Guards of the British Army, was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He was said to have been "a great friend of HRH the Prince of Wales to whom it is stated he lent 80,000 which was not repaid."Upon the death of his father on 4 October 1780, he succeeded as the 6th Baronet Dyer, of Tottenham, as well as inheriting Newton Hall, Essex from his father and the London property of his ancestors, the Swinnertons, in St Mary Aldermanbury, St Lawrence Jewry, and Tottenham. In 1782, Elizabeth Harries left Sir John her entire estate, including the Manor of Westhope in Shropshire, of which he was made Lord of the Manor, in 1792.
Personal life
On 9 December 1761, Dyer married Susannah Vicary, a daughter of Henry Vicary of Windsor, at St Vedast Foster Lane. Together, they were the parents of three daughters, Elizabeth Mary Dyer, Eleanor Dyer, and Elizabeth Dyer, who all died unmarried, and one son:- Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Baronet, a Lieutenant-General in the British Army who married Elizabeth Standerwick, only daughter and heiress of James Standerwick of Ovington Park. After his death, she married German Baron Friedrich von Zandt.