Early Life
Robert Dyer was born on March 6, 1808 to Thomas and Sarah (Smith) Dyer, who lived in the county of Wiltshire, England. In 1837, records show that Dyer was listed as a shoemaker in the village of Heytesbury, just a few miles from Chitterne, also in the county of Wiltshire. Robert Dyer's great grandfather, Simon Dyer Senior, had also been a shoemaker in Heytesbury. On August 3, 1837, Dyer sent a letter of recommendation from the Vicarage in Chitterne, signed by a Reverend J. Leach Povey to the Newfoundland School Society wishing to serve as a teacher in Newfoundland.
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