# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyler, George

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​TYLER, Kt, K.H. (Captain, 1822. f-p., 11; h-p., 30.)
Sir George Tyler, born 28 Dec. 1792, is eldest son of the late Admiral Sir Chas. Tyler, G.C.B., by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Alex. Leach, Esq., of Corsan, co. Pembroke; and half-brother of the late Retired Captain Chas. Tyler, R.N. His grandfather, Peter Tyler, a Captain in the 52nd Regt., married the Hon. Anne Roper, daughter of Henry eighth Lord Teynham.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Oct. 1806; and embarked, 7 Dec. 1809, on board the Lively 38, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley; under whom, after conveying Sir Chas. Cotton to Cadiz and escorting the outward-bound trade to Portugal and the Mediterranean, he was wrecked, 10 Aug. 1810, on a reef of rocks, near Point Coura, in the Mediterranean. He had previously attained the rating of Midshipman. In the following Nov. he joined the Spartan 38, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, stationed on the coast of France; and on 11 May, 1811, while engaged in a cutting-out affair in Quiberon Bay, he had the misfortune to lose his right arm. In Sept. of the same year, three months after he had left the Spartan, he was received on board the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth; he next, in May and Oct. 1812, joined the Hermes 20 and Reindeer 18, Capts. Philip Browne and Wm. Manners; he went back, about Jan. 1813, to the Salvador del Mundo; and on 6 Feb. 1813, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. On 10 of the month last mentioned he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the Lion 64, to his father at the Cape of Good Hope; where he continued employed in the same capacity in the Semiramis 36 and Medway 74 until made Commander 7 Feb. 1815, into the Harpy sloop. He was in the Medway at the capture, in July, 1814, of the United States brig-of-war Syren of 18 guns and 137 men. The Harpy made prize of a vessel, laden with slaves, bound from Madagascar to the Isle of France; and formed one of a squadron sent, on Buonaparte’s escape from Elba, to protect the island of Bourbon. She was paid off in March, 1816. On 8 of the following May Capt. Tyler was granted a pension of 200l. per annum for the loss of his arm. After officiating for 12 months as Inspecting-Commander of the coast of Norfolk, he was appointed, 8 Dec. 1821, to the Fly 18; in which vessel, prior to being ordered to the coast of Scotland, he was sent on a special mission to Jersey and to Gravelines for the purpose of entering into a negotiation with the French relative to the oyster-fishery on that part of the coast of France. He was advanced to his present rank 10 Oct. 1822; and has since been on half-pay.
From Jan. 1833 until Nov. 1840, a period including that of the general abolition of slavery in the British colonies. Sir Geo. Tyler (who was nominated a K.H. 4 March, 1833, and invested with the honour of Knighthood in Nov. 1838) filled the appointment of Lieutenant-Governor of the island of St. Vincent. He is a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Glamorgan. He married, 21 Sept. 1819, Harriet Margaret, daughter of the late Right Hon. John Sullivan, of Richings Lodge, co. Bucks, by Lady Harriet, daughter of George, third Earl of Buckinghamshire; and has issue seven sons and four daughters. Agents – Messrs. Chard.