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- From the Times :-
“On Friday, May 5, 1944, at Gordonbush, Brora, Sutherland, from pneumonia, WALTER PARKYNS TYSER, dearly loved husband of Jessie Tyser (nee Quill), aged 77. Funeral at Gordonbush, to-day (Monday), at 3 o’clock”
9th May 1944
Obituary.3
The Times :-
“Mr. Walter Parkyns Tyser died from pneumonia at Gordonbush, Brora, Suntherland, on May 5, at the age of 77. He was the eldest of the four sons of George Waler Tyser of Oakfield, Mortimer, Berkshire. His mother was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas George Augustus Parkyns, fifth baronet. Tyser was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the 1914-18 war he did good work at the Ministry of Shipping, and up to the outbreak of the present war he went regularly to the City and carried on his business as chairman of the Port line and a director of Cunard White Star Line. He was a good fisherman and shot, a fine horseman, and a knowledgeable farmer if his estates in Essex and Scotland. In 1894 he married Gertrude Elinor, daughter of Charles Langton, of Bark Hill, Liverpool. She died in 1918. In 1920 he married, secondly, Jessie Woodriff, daughter of Colonel B.C. Quill, C.B., of Ballycarty, Tralee, Co. Kerry. She survives him will three sons and one daughter.”
Other facts
Cambridge University Alumni in Cambridge, Trinity.1
"Entered : Michs. 1885
Adm. pens. at Trinty, Oct. 8, 1885. (Elder) s. of George (Walter), of 43, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London (and Annie, dau. of Sir Thomas G. A. Parkyns, 6th Bart., of Bunny Park, Notts.). B. Mar. 27, 1867, at Reigate, Surrey. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1885. Ship and insurance agent. A director of the Tysex Line Ltd., Chairman of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line; Director of the Cunard Steam Ship Company. Married (1) July, 1894, Gertrude Elinor, dau. of Charles Langton, of Barkhill, Aigburth; (2) Oct. 1920, Jessie Woodriffe Berkeley, dau. of Col. Berkeley Quill, and had issue. Died May 5, 1944, at Brora Sunderland. Brother of the above."
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