He was born in Brompton, North Yorkshire, England in 1789 and was the brother of Sir John Byerley.
He was also editor of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, from 1823 until his death, on 28 July 1826.
[2] Under the pseudonym of Stephen Collet, Byerley published Relics of Literature, London, 1823, 8vo, a collection of miscellanies, including a long article, reprinted in 1875, on graphology.
These volumes, which came out in forty-four monthly parts, were supposedly written by "Sholto and Reuben Percy, brothers of the Benedictine monastery of Mount Benger".
The name of the collection was taken from the Percy coffee-house in Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia, where Byerley and Robertson used to meet.