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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.
Together, they were the parents of three daughters, Elizabeth Mary Dyer, Eleanor Dyer, and Elizabeth Dyer, who all died unmarried, and one son: [4] Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Baronet (1768–1838), [5] a Lieutenant-General in the British Army who married Elizabeth Standerwick, only daughter and heiress of James Standerwick of ...
Falmouth Art Gallery is a publicly funded art gallery in Cornwall, with one of the leading art collections in Cornwall and southwest England, [1] which features work by old masters, major Victorian artists, British and French Impressionists, leading surrealists and maritime artists, children's book illustrators, automata, contemporary painters and printmakers.
www.cornwall.gov.uk. Davies, John Reuben (2013). "Wales and West Britain". In Stafford, Pauline (ed.). A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-c.1100. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-42513-8. Halliday, Frank Ernest (2001). History of Cornwall, 2nd edition. Main text same as 1959 edition but with afterword by Halliday's ...
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Dyer, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2015. One creation is extant as of 2015. The Dyer Baronetcy , of Staughton in the County of Huntingdon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 8 June 1627 for Lodowick Dyer, a grandson of Richard Dyer .
The Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, formerly known as the Royal Cornwall Museum, [1] is a museum in Truro, England, which holds an extensive mineral collection rooted in Cornwall's mining and engineering heritage (including much of the mineral collection of Philip Rashleigh).
Penlee House is a museum and art gallery in the town of Penzance, Cornwall, home to many paintings by members of the Newlyn School, including The Rain It Raineth Every Day by Norman Garstin, School is Out by Elizabeth Forbes, Among the Missing by Walter Langley and On Paul Hill by Stanhope Forbes.
[9] The building ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged Carrick District Council was formed in Truro in 1974. [10] At that time, the newly-formed Falmouth Town Council took over the management of Falmouth Art Gallery, which had been based in Grove Place, and Cornwall County Council took over the management of the library. [11]