2 A short, dumpy man with a smooth, ruddy complexion, he probably owed his introduction to the Prince of Wales to the dean of Christ Church, Cyril Jackson.

Glenbervie wrote in 1801 that he ‘affects a classical taste and knowledge, but though he does not seem to me entirely deficient in that respect, he could gain no credit for learning’, either at Eton, where he was known as ‘Clod’ Tyrwhitt, or at Oxford, where one contemporary dubbed him ‘the Squab Cupid’. Tyrwhitt’s father left him a half share in £5,150 Bank and South Sea stock, 1 but it was on his uncle Thomas (1730-86), sometime clerk of the House of Commons and one of the leading literary scholars of his day, that he modelled himself. 1803-June 1812 gentleman usher of the black rod June 1812-July 1832 keeper, Windsor Little Park 1812-15.Ĭapt. and keeper of the Prince’s privy seal and auditor and sec. of Thomas Gilbert of Cotton Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire. Edmund Tyrwhitt, rector of Wickham Bishops, Essex by Margaret, da.

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