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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S (age 17) June 23, 1778. S. of Matthew, of the Excise Office. B. in Gt Chapel Street, Westminster. School, Westminster. ' Matric. Michs. 1778; B.A. 1782; M.A. 1785. Ord. deacon, Sept. 25, 1785; priest (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Bishop of Rochester) Sept. 23, 1787. V. of Norton, Worcs., 1828-40. Died Mar. 15, 1840, aged 79. (Not to be confused with a Thomas Dyer of Wadham College, Oxford, B.A. 1804, R. of Abbess Roding, Essex, 1828, till his death in 1852.) (St John's Coll. Adm.; Record of Old Westminsters; Foster, Index Eccles.; Cambridge Chronicle, Apr. 4, 1840.)