Wiliams Tyndale

"William Tyndale (?-1830), a more elusive biographical subject than Pembroke, was a landowner who inherited an estate at North Cerney upon the death of his father in 1783, and who became Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1797. As a soldier, Tyndale performed regimental service with appointments as major in the 1st Life Guards in 1794 (exchanged from the 87th Foot), and as brevet lieutenant colonel in 1796. He exchanged to lieutenant-colonel in the 13th Foot in February 1803, and retired from...See more

"William Tyndale (?-1830), a more elusive biographical subject than Pembroke, was a landowner who inherited an estate at North Cerney upon the death of his father in 1783, and who became Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1797. As a soldier, Tyndale performed regimental service with appointments as major in the 1st Life Guards in 1794 (exchanged from the 87th Foot), and as brevet lieutenant colonel in 1796. He exchanged to lieutenant-colonel in the 13th Foot in February 1803, and retired from service in August 1803. (His son, Charles William Tyndale, served with notable distinction in the Peninsular War.) Tyndale held an annual pension of 200 pounds as of June 1, 1830, and he died on August 27, 1830." by Charles Caramello See less