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He was the eldest son of Jonathan Tyers, proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens in south London. On his father"s death in 1767, Tyers became joint manager of Vauxhall Gardens with his brother Jonathan.
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Thomas Tyers
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He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 13 December 1738, graduating Bachelor of Arts 1742, and Master of Arts (from Exeter College) 1745. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1757. His father had left him well off, and according to James Boswell in his of Samuel Johnson he "ran about the world with a pleasant carelessness".
He was a favourite with Samuel Johnson, who used to call him Tom Tyers, and confessed that Tyers always told him something that he did not know before.
lieutenant was he who said of Johnson that he always talked as if he were talking on oath. Tyers had a villa at Ashtead, near Epsom in Surrey, and London apartments in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, and he used to drive around between them.
He died at Ashtead, after a lingering illness, on 1 February 1787, in his sixty-first year.
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Conversations political and familiar.
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Conversations political and familiar.
