Jeremiah Dyson

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Jeremiah Dyson (1722 – September 16, 1776) was a British civil servant and politician.

He studied at Edinburgh University and matriculated at Leiden University in 1742. He settled a pension on his friend Mark Akenside, the poet and physician, and later defended Akenside's The Pleasures of the Imagination against William Warburton. He was a friend of Samuel Richardson.

He purchased the clerkship of House of Commons in 1748, and became a Tory after George III's accession. He discontinued the practice of selling the clerkships subordinate to his office. He was Member of Parliament for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1762–8, for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 1768–74, and for Horsham, 1774. He was appointed a commissioner for the Board of Trade, 1764–8; a Lord of the Treasury, 1768–74; and a Privy Counsellor in 1774.

He supported Lord North's treatment of the American colonies; nicknamed "Mungo" (the ubiquitous negro slave in Isaac Bickerstaffe's Padlock) from his omnipresence in parliamentary business.

Political offices
Preceded by: Hans Stanley	Cofferer of the Household 1774–1776	Succeeded by: Hans Stanley
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by: The Lord Holmes Henry Holmes	Member for Yarmouth with The Lord Holmes 1762–1765, John Eames 1765–1768 1762–1768	Succeeded by: William Strode Jervoise Clarke
Preceded by: John Tucker Richard Glover Richard Jackson Charles Walcott	Member for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis with John Tucker, The Lord Waltham, Sir Charles Davers, Bt 1768–1774	Succeeded by: John Tucker Welbore Ellis William Chaffin Grove John Purling
Preceded by: Robert Pratt James Wallace	Member for Horsham with James Wallace 1774–1776	Succeeded by: James Wallace The Earl of Drogheda