DYER (John), the son of Robert Dyer, Esq; a Welsh solicitor of great capacity, was born in 1700, and edu-
cated a painter; for which purpose he travelled to Rome, where he collected materials for his instructive poem called the Ruins of Rome: his ill health and literary turn, however, induced him to turn clergyman; and he obtained the living of Coningsby in Lincolnshire, where he resided until his death. He distinguished himself by his poems of Grangar Hill, the Ruins of Rome above-mentioned, and the Fleece, published in 1757, which his bad health hardly permitted him to finish.
DYER's Weed, in botany. See RESEDA.