By her he had eight sons and two daughters; among his children were Lt Frederick Howard Vyse[6] RN and Windsor MP Richard Howard-Vyse.

Continuing in the 15th, Vyse was promoted to captain on 24 June 1802, and in this position served as an aide-de-camp to his father in 1809 when the latter commanded the Yorkshire Military District.

He then joined the 2nd Life Guards in the same rank on 5 July 1816, before being promoted to substantive major on 4 January 1819, in the 1st West India Regiment.

[8] Vyse purchased a majority back into the 2nd Life Guards a month later on 4 February, and on 13 May 1820 was made a brevet lieutenant-colonel, serving as an equerry to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

[9] From this stage Vyse served on half pay, being promoted to colonel on 10 January 1837 and major-general on 9 November 1846.

[13] Some sixteen years after Vyse's death, evidence surfaced that most of his voters had been paid: £3.8s for a plumper and £1.14s for a split vote.

Vyse found Caviglia "unproductive" and in 1837 teamed with engineer John Shae Perring in an effort to explore and document the pyramids.

Along with lines, markers, and directional notations were the names of various work gangs who cut and transported the stone blocks.

The now famous instance of Pharaoh Khufu's name is found on the south ceiling towards the west end of Campbell's Chamber.

[22] Vyse had the graffiti copied by his assistant, J. R. Hill,[23] and sent them to Samuel Birch, the Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum who, at the time, was one of the very few scholars able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.