the boy of a solicitor, he was natural either within 1699 or in 1700 at Aberglasney, in Carmarthenshire. He was sent to Westminster School and was intended for the career within law, however in his father's demise he began to survey painting. He wandered all about South Wales, sketching & now and again painting portraits. Inside 1726 his first verse form, [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/grongar.html Grongar Hill], appeared around the miscellany published by Richard Savage, the poet. It was an irregular ode in the and then-alleged Pindaric style, but Dyer totally rewrote it into the free measure of quartet cadences, & printed it singly around 1727. It experienced an quick & brilliant profits. Grongar Hill, as it today stands, occurs as short verse form of just 150 lines, describing within language of very much freshness & picturesque charm a watch from either a hill overlooking the poets native valley of Towy. The visit to Italy wore fruit in The Ruins of Rome (1740), the descriptive piece around astir 600 lines of Miltonic blank verse. Dyer was ordained an Anglican priest around 1741, and, held a livings of Calthorp in Leicestershire, Belchford (1751), Coningsby (1752), and Kirby-on-Bane (1756), the survive tierce existence Lincolnshire parishes. He married, around 1741, a Miss Ensor, said to become descended from either the brother of William Shakespeare.

Around 1757 Dyer published his yearn operate, a didactical blank-verse epos, The Fleece, in quaternion books, treating sustaining a attention of sheep, a shearing & preparation of the wool, weaving, & trade woolen manufactures. It aroused little interest, & Dodsley jokingly prophesied that Dyer would exist as buried around woolen article of clothing. He died at Coningsby of consumption. His verse form were collected by Dodsley around 1770, & by Edward Thomas in 1903 fcr the Welsh Library, vol. iv.