A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyler, Charles
TYLER. (Retired Captain, 1844.)
Charles Tyler died 16 Aug. 1846, at Bruges. He was son of the late Admiral Sir Chas. Tyler, G.C.B., by his first wife. Miss Pike; and half-brother of the present Capt. Sir Geo. Tyler, R.N., Kt., K.H.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Sept. 1793. In 1796 he joined, in the capacity of Midshipman, L’Aigle 38, commanded by his father, Capt. Chas. Tyler; under whom we believe he was wrecked, near Tunis, 18 July, 1798. He was subsequently employed, also in the Mediterranean, in the Marlborough 74, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, Warrior 74, Capt. C. Tyler, Champion 24, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, and Lion 64. In Nov. 1800 he was again placed under his father in the Warrior, then in the Baltic; where at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 9 Oct. 1801, he was serving on board the Alcmène frigate, Capts. Robt. Lambert and John Styles. His next appointments were, to the Hydra 38, Capt. Geo. Mundy, in the Mediterranean, to the Elephant 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, in the West Indies, and to the Iris 36, Capt. John Tower, on the north coast of Spain. On his arrival in the East Indies in the Cornelia frigate, Capt. Henry Folkes Edgell, he joined, in Dec. 1809, the Arrogant, Capts. Graham and Barrington Reynolds; the latter of whom he followed, in April, 1811, into the Hesper 18. After assisting at the reduction of Java, where he served on shore with the army, he was nominated, 4 Nov. 1811, Acting-Commander of the Procris sloop. He invalided in the course of the ensuing month; was promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Commander 7 Feb. 1812; and was placed on the list of Retired Captains 5 March, 1844. Agents – Messrs. Chard.