Background
Tyrell was the son of Thomas Tyrell of Ramseys, Buttsbury and his wife Margaret Filioll, daughter of John Filioll of Old Hall, Rayne.
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John Tyrell
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Education
Wadham College.
Career
He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 7 November 1617 and was awarded Bachelor on 18 May 1620. He was a student of Inner Temple in 1620. He was knighted on 27 January 1628 and became a Justice of the Peace for Essex, holding the commission until 1641.
He was ambivalent in the Civil War.
In 1643 in the course of a visit to Wiltshire went to see the King at Oxford but claimed he did not bear arms. He had to compound for £800.
His estate was sequestrated again in 1648. In 1655 he was imprisoned at Yarmouth after Penruddock’s rising.
Tyrell became Justice of the Peace again in July 1660 and remained until his death.
He was commissioner for assessment from 1661 to 1674 and was commissioner for recusants in 1675. Tyrell died in 1676 and was buried at East Horndon on 5 April. Tyrell married firstly Elizabeth Evelyn, daughter of George Evelyn of West Dean, Wiltshire on 14 December 1624.
They had a daughter, but she died in February 1630.
She died 17 December 1679.
Membership
Cavalier Parliament]
In 1661, hel was elected Member of Parliament for Maldon in the Cavalier Parliament.
