Essays & Poems by A.G. Tyson, 1852

An Essay on the Poetic and Musical Customs of the Ancients, with Original Poems, by A.G. Tyson, 1852
This book is reproduced on a CD. The author, A.G. Tyson, was born at Reighton in 1816. He was a schoolmaster in Scarborough. He married in Scarborough and had five children. He wrote “A Student’s Friend”
In 1841, he was a census enumerator in Scarborough, and a Registrar of Marriages. In c1845 he became Station Master at Haxby. He published this work in 1852.
In 1854 became Station Master at Pickering where he remained until his retirement in 1882. He died in 1891 and is buried in Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough
An Essay on the Poetic and Musical Customs of the Ancients, with Original Poems, by A. G. Tyson. One of the poems is an extremely descriptive account of the visit of Queen Victoria to Castle Howard. We scanned this book for the author's great great grandson, Peter Dixon.