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- Sir George Tyler (1792?1862), naval officer, Charles Tyler's eldest son from his second marriage, was born in Pembrokeshire, on 28 December 1792. He attended the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, from 1806, and entered the navy in 1809. In a boat attack in Quiberon Bay in 1811 he lost his right arm. He was his father's flag lieutenant at the Cape of Good Hope, and became a commander in 1815 and a captain in 1822. He married, on 21 September 1819, Harriet Margaret, daughter of the Right Hon. John Sullivan, and Lady Harriet, daughter of George, third earl of Buckinghamshire; they had seven sons and four daughters. From 1833 to 1840 Tyler was lieutenant-governor of the island of St Vincent. He was made a KH on 4 March 1833, and knighted again in November 1838; he became a rear-admiral in 1852, and was made vice-admiral in 1857. From February 1851 to December 1857 he was a Conservative MP for Glamorgan. He resided at Cotrel, Glamorgan. He died at Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan, on 4 June 1862.
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