Dyer, THOMAS HENRY

Dyer, THOMAS HENRY, an industrious archaeologist and historian, born in London, May 4, 1804. In early life he was engaged in the West India trade, but he ultimately devoted himself to literature, and qualified himself as an authority on classical antiquities by extensive travel on the Continent and prolonged study of the topography and antiquities of Rome, Pompeii, and Athens. In 1865 he was made LL.D. by the university of St Andrews. His works are a Life of Calvin (1850), History of Modern Europe (4 vols. 1861-64), History of the City of Rome (1865), History of the Kings of Rome (1867), Ruins of Pompeii (1866; 2d ed., substantially a new work, entitled Pompeii: its History, Buildings, and Antiquities, 1868), and Ancient Athens (1873), besides numerous articles in the Classical Museum and Dr Smith's Dictionaries of Biography and Geography. He died at Bath, 30th January 1888.