Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Bt.

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Baronet (5 February 1768 – 12 April 1838) was an English soldier.

Early life Dyer was born on 5 February 1768 and was baptised at St John the Evangelist, Westminster on 16 March 1768. Dyer was present at Moore's death during the Battle of Corunna. He also a Lieutenant-General with the Spanish Army, earning the name "Father of the Unfortunate Spaniards", and was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Hermenegild and Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Upon the death of his father on 21 March 1801, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Dyer, of Tottenham. As he died without issue, he left his entire estate to his widow, but was succeeded in the baronetcy by his same-named cousin, naval officer Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, of Park Street. After his death, his widow married German Baron Friedrich von Zandt in May 1839.