Daniel Tyerman

Tyerman was born on 19 November 1773 at Clack farm, near Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, where his parents had resided for some time.

Coming under strong religious convictions, he entered Hoxton Academy in 1795 to prepare himself for the congregational ministry.

There he was one of the first projectors of the town reading-rooms, and filled the office of secretary of the Isle of Wight Bible Society.

In 1821 Tyerman and George Bennet of Sheffield were appointed by the London Missionary Society to visit their southern stations.

[1][2] They sailed from London on 2 May in the whaler Tuscan, and, proceeding round Cape Horn, visited Tahiti, the Leeward and Sandwich Islands, and other mission stations in the South Seas.