Sir Timothy Tyrrell (also spelled Tirrell; –1632) was an Englishman who served as

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, and King

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Family

Tyrrell was born in

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, the son of Sir Edward Tyrrell, Member of Parliament for

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, by his second wife, Margaret. He was the brother of politician and judge

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. He married Eleanor Kingsmill, daughter of Sir

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and Anne Wilkes, on 22 August 1613 in

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, Buckinghamshire. They had seven children: *Sir Timothy Tyrrell (1617–1701), also Master of the Hounds to King Charles *William, killed in the

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at the

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in 1644 *Henry, ranger of

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*Charles, died unmarried, 1694 *Eleanor, married first to Sir Peter Temple; secondly to Richard Grenville of Wotton, with whom she had

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, M.P. *Bridget, died unmarried *Mary, married to Sir Walter Pye

Shotover Park

Tyrrell was granted the rangership of Shotover Forest after a freak hunting accident early in the 17th century, in which he was maimed by the teenaged Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King

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. According to a chronicle of the unfortunate accident: In 1613, following Prince Henry's death in 1612, King James confirmed the rangership of Shotover by letters patent for the duration of the lives of Timothy Tyrrell and his two sons,

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(Master of the Buckhounds to King

) and William. On 29 August 1624, King James

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Tyrrell at Shotover while attending a sporting hunt. Tyrrell died in 1632.

References

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