Background
Son of Robert Thyer, a silk weaver, by his wife Elizabeth Brabant, he was born in Manchester, and baptised on 20 February 1709.
Son of Robert Thyer, a silk weaver, by his wife Elizabeth Brabant, he was born in Manchester, and baptised on 20 February 1709.
Educated at Manchester grammar school, he obtained an exhibition in 1727 to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts on 12 October 1730.
Returning to Manchester, Thyer was elected librarian of the Chetham library in February 1732, and continued in post until 3 October 1763. Thyer died on 27 October 1781, and was buried with his ancestors in Manchester collegiate church. Some of Thyer"s manuscripts went to the Chetham Library, and many of his letters, as well as a specimen of his verse, were printed in Byrom"s Remains.
Thyer married, on 9 December 1741, Silence, daughter of John Wagstaffe of Glossop, Derbyshire and Manchester, and widow of John Leigh of Middle Hulton in Deane, Lancashire.
Their children all predeceased him.