Colonel Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, 6th Baronet (30 November 1738 – 21 March 1801) was a British soldier and courtier who was Groom of the Bedchamber to King George IV when Prince of Wales.
[2] Dyer, a Colonel in the Guards of the British Army, was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales (who later became King George IV).
[3] He was said to have been "a great friend of HRH the Prince of Wales to whom it is stated he lent 80,000 which was not repaid.
"[4] Upon the death of his father on 4 October 1780, he succeeded as the 6th Baronet Dyer, of Tottenham,[2] as well as inheriting Newton Hall, Essex from his father (which he sold) and the London property of his ancestors, the Swinnertons, in St Mary Aldermanbury, St Lawrence Jewry, and Tottenham.
[4] Sir John died on 21 March 1801 and was buried at the Chancel Vault at Aldermanbury.