Thomas Tyers

He was the eldest son of Jonathan Tyers, proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens in south London.

[1] On his father's death in 1767, Tyers became joint manager of Vauxhall Gardens with his brother Jonathan.

His father had left him well off, and according to James Boswell in his Life of Samuel Johnson he "ran about the world with a pleasant carelessness".

[1] Tyers had a villa at Ashtead, near Epsom in Surrey, and London apartments in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, and he used to drive around between them.

[1] Tyers published:[1] He wrote the words of many songs sung at Vauxhall, and contributed an account of the gardens to John Nichols's History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth.