Career
Educated first at Saint Andrews, he joined Edmund Hay at the time of de Gouda"s mission in 1526. During this period he was once engaged in a controversy with John Knox, against whom he wrote The Refutation of ane Answer made be Schir Johne Knox to ane letter be James Tyrie (Paris, 1573). Next year he discussed several points of religion with Andrew Melville privately in Paris.
In 1585 he was summoned to Rome as the representative of France on the Committee of Six, who eventually drew up Father Acquaviva"s first edition of the "Ratio Studiorum", printed in 1586.
He was rector of Clermont College during the great siege of Paris (May to September, 1590). He had over a hundred scholars as well as a large community to feed, at a time when men were dying with hunger in the streets.
After the Duke of Parma had revictualled the town (September), Tyrie was again sent to Rome, as French deputy for the congregation, which finally supported the government of Father Acquaviva. He also supported at Rome the vain endeavours in Scotland of the Catholic Earl of Huntly, Earl of Erroll, and Earl of Angus to maintain themselves, with King James VI of Scotland"s connivance, by force of arms against the Kirk (1594).
He also took steps to restore the Scottish hospital at Rome, which eventually (1600) became the Scots College there.
Participant of his cursus is preserved in manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, educated (1913). "James Tyrie".
Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton.
