Major Carlyon
(1822-1884)
27 August 1862

Volume 9, page 118, sitting number 11,470

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Major Carlyon,' this is probably Major Thomas Tristram Spry Carlyon of Tregrahan, Par Station, Cornwall. ]

Born on 6 April 1822, the son of Edward Carlyon, Thomas Tristram Spry Carlyon became a Major in the service of the 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards, a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy-Lieutenant, and in 1862, High Sheriff.

On the night that the 1861 census was taken, he was with his wife at his London residence, 44 Cadogan Place, Sloane Square. Mrs Carlyon had five servants to help her run the house. In 1871 the family were still at the same address. 

Bateman's The Great Landowners of Cornwall (1883) lists Majors Carlyon as owning 3050 acres in Cornwall and 200 acres in Middlesex. The gross annual value of the Cornish land was £4047 and the Middlesex land brought in a further £200 a year. The same source also provides the information that Major Carlyon was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and that his clubs were Boodle's, the Army and Navy, and the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Major Carlyon died at Tregrehan on 6 June 1884, aged 62. His estate was valued at £20,467.