Gerald Tyler
Gerald Tyler was born in Leeds UK in 1938 and educated at Sedbergh School and St Johns College Cambridge where he read law and later qualified as a solicitor. After over twenty-five years in private practice he retired to the Yorkshire Dales and began writing. His interests include local history the theater and watercolor painting. Foreign travel has taken him throughout Europe to Egypt and South Africa with several trips to India doing charity in rural villages and extensively to Family in the USA. He now lives in Texas with his artist wife Rima. His First novel Return to Darjeeling is set in World War II UK and India. In The Lonsdales of Ainley Hall an impeding family tragedy takes Martin Lonsdale to South Africa and later finding a wife in Annabelle from Savanah Georgia. In Tides of Fortune Tom Moffat's story unfolds introducing him to newly elevated Sir Martin and Lady Annabelle and all find themselves playing complimentary roles in While Cannons Roar against a background of the Crimean War.. In Moffat Sahib Tom is once again building railways but this time in India during the Mutiny where he renews his friendship with Colonel Arthur Stillwell and Amelia Lonsdale. Hector Fallon's Legacy brings Colonel Stillwell back to Yorkshire to become embroiled in the lives of Tom and Amelia Moffat, the Lonsdales and an Indian Prince. The saga may eve continue with Stillwell representing the British interests in the American Civil War.
Gerald Tyler was born in Leeds UK in 1938 and educated at Sedbergh School and St Johns College Cambridge where he read law and later qualified as a solicitor. After over twenty-five years in private practice he retired to the Yorkshire Dales and began writing. His interests include local history the theater and watercolor painting. Foreign travel has taken him throughout Europe to Egypt and South Africa with several trips to India doing...
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Tides of Fortune (The Lonsdale Saga Book 2)
Set in a farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1850s, the story follows the fortunes of Tom Moffat, the son of a master shoemaker, Alfred, whose infatuation with Evelyn Hackett, a lady with a past, leads him to disinherit his son, cheating Tom out of his birthright.
Mary, a Scottish Drover’s daughter and her unborn child, are abandoned...
While Cannons Roar (The Lonsdale Saga Book 3)
While Cannons Roar is set in the Crimean War 1853 -- 1856 when a family of friends and neighbors follow the drums and perform their duties against the background of cannon thunder. Sir Martin Lonsdale’s son, Jonathan as Major in the Richmondshire Rifles, leads action against the Russians at the bloody battle of Alma and during the long-suffering...
Moffat Sahib (The Lonsdale Saga Book 4)
Returning from service in the Crimea, Yorkshireman Tom Moffat renews his acquaintance with the Lonsdale family of Ainley Hall and Colonel Arthur Stillwell of the Richmondshire Rifles. With their help, Tom secures employment as a railway engineer on the Great India Peninsular Railway. During his time in India, native troops mutiny, and Indian...