Ancestors

Thomas Myers

Thomas Myers was born in Yorkshire on 13 February 1773, according to his monuments. He was the son of Robert Myers of Hovingham, near York, in the words of his grandson. The Hovingham register records the baptism of "Thos Myres", son of Robt, on 13 February 1775: the same day and month, two years later. The Dictionary of National Biography, written from family information, gives 1774, at Hovingham, "of a family long settled in the county". His father married Ann Ellery at Hovingham in 1774. If the 1775 date is the true one, she was his mother.

In 1806 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The Academy trained the officers of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers, and mathematics was the core of its teaching. He held the degree of LL.D.

On 1 January 1807, at Fulham, he married Anna Maria Hale. She was the daughter and heir of John Hale of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. Their first children were baptized at Woolwich: Thomas in November 1807, Mary Ann in July 1809, Anna Maria in October 1810 and Frederic in October 1811. Anna Maria died a few weeks old. His father died at Hovingham in July 1807. The family then moved to Greenwich, where Harriot (1812), Caroline (1815), Charlotte (1816) and Eliza (1818) were baptized at St Alphege. Harriot died at a month old.

He wrote textbooks and essays. A Compendious System of Modern Geography, with Maps appeared in 1812 and was reissued in two quarto volumes ten years later. He published a statistical chart of Europe in 1813, an essay in 1814 on employing the men then being discharged from the army and navy, and a translation of de Rossel's treatise on finding latitude and longitude at sea. In 1818 he published Remarks on a Course of Education. From 1811 he wrote astronomical essays for the annual Time's Telescope, one of them a memoir of the Arctic explorer Captain Parry.

He taught his son Frederic himself before Frederic went to Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1829. Both his sons became clergymen. His daughter Mary Ann married Thomas Clutterbuck Croome, a Gloucestershire solicitor, at Lewisham in October 1831. His daughter Caroline married Thomas Eyre Wyche of Camberwell in September 1833.

He died at his house in Lee Park, Blackheath, on 21 April 1834, aged 61. Three months later Caroline gave birth to a son, and on 22 August she died at nineteen. Father and daughter share a monument in St Mary's, Lewisham. His widow lived until 1860.

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