Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was MP for Essex (1830-31) and North Essex (1832-57).

REFERENCES TO Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, second baronet:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 September 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)