The family's earlier history in Staffordshire is outlined by the editor of Erdeswicke.[2] Vyse was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, matriculating in 1727 and graduating B.A. in 1730.[3] He held the living of St Philip, Birmingham[4] and became Treasurer of Lichfield Cathedral in 1734.[5] One of the "Lichfield literati", an example of his skills in improvised verse is preserved by Anna Seward.[6]
One of his sons, Richard, became a General.[7][8] Another, William, was Archdeacon of Coventry,[9] and it was he (according to the inscription) who had the monument to his father set up in Birmingham Cathedral. William had also daughters, one of whom, Mary (born 1745), married the Right Revd. Spencer Madan, Lord Bishop of Peterborough; and, dying in 1827, she was buried at Lichfield in the same vault as her brother General George Vyse.[10] Their sister Catherine in 1768 became the second wife of Sir George Smith, 1st Bart., was widowed in the following year, and died in 1786.[11]
Memorial at Lichfield
He also has a wall monument at Lichfield Cathedral, which shows that he married Catherine, daughter of Richard Smalbroke, Lord Bishop of Lichfield.[12] Both were buried in the south aisle of Lichfield Cathedral.[13]
Notes
↑ 'Archdeacons: Salop', in J.M. Horn (ed.), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857, Vol. 10: Coventry and Lichfield Diocese (London 2003), pp. 12-14 (British History Online).
↑ S. Erdeswicke (ed. T. Harwood), A Survey of Staffordshire: Containing the Antiquities of that County New, improved edition (J.B. Nichols and Son, London 1844), pp. 120-21 (Google).
↑ A. Seward, Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin: Chiefly during his Residence in Lichfield (Classic Press, Philadelphia 1804), pp. 50-53 (Google).
↑ 'General Richard Vyse', Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 95 Part 2 (1825), p. 180 (Google).
↑ 'Succession of Colonels: Richard Vyse', in Historical Records of the Third, or Prince of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards (By Command, London 1838), pp. 127-28 (Internet Archive).
↑ 'Archdeacons: Coventry', in J.M. Horn (ed.), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857, Vol. 10: Coventry and Lichfield Diocese (London 2003), pp. 8-9 (British History Online).
↑ W. Newling and J.C. Woodhouse, A Short Account of Lichfield Cathedral, Fourth Edition, with additions and an engraving (T.G. Lomax, Lichfield 1834), p. 82 (Google).
↑ B. Redford (ed.), The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Vol II: 1773-1776 (Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey 1992), p. 222 note 3 (Google), citing A.L. Reade, Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 5: The Doctor's Life, 1728-1735 (London 1928), p. 211; Vol. 11: Consolidated Index of Persons (London 1952), p. 436.
↑ A Short Account of Lichfield Cathedral, p. 81 (Google).
↑ A Short Account of Lichfield Cathedral, p. 83 (Google).
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