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John Dyer was the fourth of six children born to Robert and Catherine Cocks Dyer in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, five miles from Grongar Hill.His exact birth date is unknown, but the earliest existing record of John Dyer dates his baptism on 13 August 1699 [2] – within fourteen days after his birth as was the tradition of the time – in Llanfynnydd parish.
Grongar Hill is located in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire and was the subject of a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer.Published in two versions in 1726, during the Augustan period, its celebration of the individual experience of the landscape makes it a precursor of Romanticism.
Dyer was born on 30 November 1738 into a family that originally hailed from Heytesbury, Wiltshire. [1] John, who was baptised at Finchingfield, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyer, 5th Baronet and Elizabeth Jones (a daughter of Major Jones).
Dyer photographed by John Deakin, retouched by Bacon, who often folded, creased or spattered with paint his photographs of friends so as to find distortions he could exploit in his paintings. Although Dyer was handsome and charming, he was out of his depth when dealing with both Bacon's wasp-tongued Soho set and intellectual art world friends.
Dyer was born on 10 December 1799 and baptised at Cottingham, Yorkshire. [1] He was the son of Jane Halliday and Sir John Dyer, a Major-General in the Royal Artillery, [2] who was killed in 1816. [3] His paternal grandparents were Thomas Dyer (younger son of Sir Thomas Dyer, 5th Baronet) and Mary Smith (daughter of Richard Smith of Islington).
"Down Among the Dead Men" is an English drinking song first published in 1728, but possibly of greater antiquity. [citation needed]The song begins with a toast to "the King" and continues with obeisances to the god Bacchus which become increasingly less subtle descriptions of the benefits of alcohol in procuring opportunities for sexual intercourse.
John Lewis Dyer (1812-1901), "The Snowshoe Itinerant," was a circuit rider, that is, a preacher who rode from one church to the next. He was a Methodist. Biography
John Dyer Baizley (born October 10, 1977) is an American musician and painter most notable for being the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of heavy metal band Baroness, which formed in 2003 in Savannah, Georgia. He has been the sole constant member for the band throughout its run of more than two decades.