Sir George Tyler, 1st Baronet

Sir George Robert Tyler, 1st Baronet (26 August 1835 – 26 November 1897) was a baronet and Lord Mayor of London.

Career

Tyler was a founder of the firm of Venables, Tyler and Son, papermakers of 17 Queenhithe. He was a councilman and alderman from 1887 to his death, a Sheriff of London for 1891–2, and Lord Mayor of London for 1893–4. After a state visit to Antwerp they named a street Rue lord mayor Tyler in his honour. He was Master of the Stationers' Company for 1893–4. He was made a baronet, of Queenhithe, in 1894.

Death

He died at his home at Earls Court and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.

See also

List of Lord Mayors of London

References

Modern English Biography, edited by Boase

1835 births

1897 deaths

Sheriffs of the City of London

19th-century lord mayors of London

19th-century English politicians

Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Burials at West Norwood Cemetery