Sir Richard Dyer of Staughton (died 1605), was an English courtier, soldier, and landowner.

Richard Dyer was the son of Laurence Dyer and Jane Southe, he was a gentleman of the privy chamber to King James I.

He was the heir of his great-uncle, Sir James Dyer.[1]

He lived at Place House, Great Staughton in Huntingdonshire.

Dyer married Mary or Marie Fitzwilliam (c. 1556-1601), a daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Anne or Agnes Sidney (1523-1602), a daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst Place and Anne Pakenham.

In June 1586 Sir Philip Sidney recommended "his cousin" Sir Richard Dyer as "very valiant" to Francis Walsingham; "I beseech you both countenance and favour him".[2]

Dyer was said to be at Tilbury in 1588, and Queen Elizabeth is supposed to have visited Place House.[3]

William Cornwallis published his Essayes in 1600, with a dedicatory letter by Henry Olney addressed to Mary, Lady Dyer, and her friends and cousins, the three daughters of Lucy Sidney; Lady Sara Hastings, Lady Theodosia Dudley, and Lady Mary Wingfield. The Wingfields lived at Kimbolton, close to Staughton. Mary, Lady Dyer, gave a silver bottle for travelling to her cousin, Elizabeth Harington, Lady Montagu (d. 1616), and she bequeathed it to her manservant for remembrance.[4]

Richard Dyer died in 1605. There is a double monument to Sir James Dyer and his wife Margaret Barrowe and Sir Richard Dyer and Mary Fitzwilliam in the church at Great Staughton.[5]

Family

Richard Dyer and Mary Dyer had children including;

  • James Dyer (d. 1599).
  • Sir William Dyer (1583 - 9 April 1621), married 25 February 1602 Catherine Doyley, Lady Dyer (b.c. 1575-1654),[6] and they were buried in the church of St Denys, Colmworth, Bedfordshire, where the epitaph she composed "My Dearest Dust" is carved on their monument.[7]
    • Sir Ludowick Dyer (10 March 1606[8]-1670), who married Elizabeth Yelverton, and was the first and last Dyer baronet of Staughton. His son only son Henry died in 1637 and is commemorated on the monument at Colmworth.[9]
    • Doyley Dyer (1613-1684).
    • Richard Dyer (b. 1608) married Elizabeth (d. 1685).
    • James Dyer (b. 1617).
    • Anne Dyer (1611-1684), married William Gery of Bushmeade Priory.
    • Katherine Dyer (b. 1619), married Sir Edward Coke of Longford, Derbyshire.[10]
    • Mary Dyer, married a Mr Wardour.
  • Francis Dyer.
  • Richard Dyer (b. 1588), who suffered from a continual "hissing in his head", and consulted Richard Napier on his marriage plans, business ideas, and choice of friends.[11]
  • Edward Dyer, born 11 July 1594.[12]
  • (Lucy) Anna Dyer (d. 1639), married (1) in 1607 Edward Carr (d. 1618) of Sleaford, (2) in 1619 Henry Cromwell of Ramsey Abbey, and was known as "Lady Carr Cromwell".[13] Anne's notebook records the baptisms of her children, and godparents including Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.[14] Their only surviving son was Henry Cromwell alias Williams (1625-1673).[15] She was said to be a Catholic in 1618.[16]

References

  1. ↑ John Burke & John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (London, 1841), p. 179: Henry George Watson, A History of the Parish of Great Staughton (St Neots, 1916), p. 14.
  2. ↑ Roger Kuin, The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2012), p. 1284.
  3. ↑ Henry George Watson, A History of the Parish of Great Staughton (St Neots, 1916), pp. 13, 15.
  4. ↑ Patricia Phillipy, Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton, vol. 1 Cambridge, 2018), p. 87.
  5. ↑ Henry George Watson, A History of the Parish of Great Staughton (St Neots, 1916), pp. 13-14.
  6. ↑ Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘Lady Catherine Dyer (PERSON29811)’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634, accessed 18 August 2019.
  7. ↑ "My Dearest Dust", Poetry Foundation: Susan Dunn Hensley, 'Katherine D'Oyley Dyer', in Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Abingdon, 2017) p. 571.
  8. ↑ Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘Lodowick Dyer (PERSON48231)’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, accessed 18 August 2019.
  9. ↑ Jane Stevenson & Peter Dyer, Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology (Oxford, 2001), pp. 222-4: Catherine, the poet, was a Doyley of Merton co-heir, and the sister of Margaret Doyley, the wife of Edward Harington of Ridlington.
  10. ↑ E. H. Martin, Family', Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, vol. 10, (Sherborne, 1907) no. 99 pp. 145-157 at p. 147, 148-9.
  11. ↑ Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘Mr Richard Dyer (PERSON48232)’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, accessed 18 August 2019.
  12. ↑ Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘Mr Edward Dyer (PERSON48230)’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, accessed 18 August 2019.
  13. ↑ "Lady Carr Cromwell", Lady Dyer, young Lady Dyer, and other women of the Harington/Sidney family were mentioned in the 'Will of William Mason, Gentleman of Westminster, Middlesex', 2 February 1630, TNA PROB 11/157/110.
  14. ↑ Oliver Cromwell, Memoirs of the Protector Oliver Cromwell and of His Sons Richard and Henry (London, 1820) pp. 203-4.
  15. ↑ M. W. Helms & E. R. Edwards, 'CROMWELL (afterwards WILLIAMS), Henry (1625-73), of Bodsey House, Ramsey, Hunts', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, (1983).
  16. ↑ Samuel Gardiner Rawson, Fortescue Papers (London, 1871), pp. 63-5, 70-1.
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