Thomas Wyles

Thomas Wyles (22 March 1818 – 16 November 1914) was an English schoolmaster and vegetarianism activist. He was the owner of Allesley Park College in Warwickshire.

Career

Wyles became active in the temperance movement from 1838 and was a pioneer of the United Kingdom Alliance. He was president of the Coventry Temperance Society. He moved to Buxton in 1888 and to King's Newton in 1908.

At the age of 91 he guided a group of friends up the Matterhorn in Switzerland. At the age of 92, Wyles stated that he was doing three or four hours hard laborious gardening every day. He was a member of the Vegetarian Society and in 1910 was a speaker at their anniversary conference.

Selected publications

The Duty of the Schoolmaster: In Relation to the Formation of Character (1865)