TYRREL (James), author of a history of England, was the eldest son of Sir Timothy Tyrrel of Shotover, near Oxford, and born in London in 1642. He was educated at queen's college in Oxford, where he took his degrees; and removing thence to the Inner Temple in London, applied himself to the study of the
law, but never practiced. He employed himself in studying the history and constitution of his country, of which he at length rendered himself a thorough master, as appears from his answer to Sir Robert Filmer, and his Political Dialogues; as also from his History of England, which reaches no farther than the end of the reign of king Richard II. He died in 1718.