TYLER, Bennet, clergyman, born in Middlebury, Connecticut, 10 July, 1783 ; died in South Windsor, Connecticut, 14 May, 1858. He was the son of a farmer, was graduated at Yale in 1804, and, after studying theology, was pastor of the Congregational church in South Britain, Connecticut, from 1808 till 1822. From that date until 1828 he was president of Dartmouth college, and was pastor of the 2d Congregational church in Portland, Maine, from 1828 till 1833. The controversy on the "new divinity" awakened by the writings of Reverend Nathaniel W. Taylor, of whom he was the principal opponent, resulted in the formation of a pastoral union in September, 1833, by the Connecticut clergymen, who held to Dr. Taylor's opinions and the resolution of the other faction to found a theological seminary in East Windsor, in which he was president and professor of Christian theology from 1833 until his death. Middlebury gave him the degree of D.D. in 1823. His principal works are "History of the New Haven Theology, in Letters to Clergymen" (Hartford, 1837); "A Review of Day on the Will" (1837) ; "Memoir of Reverend Asahel Nettleton, D.D." (1844) ; "Nettleton's Remains" (1845) ; "A Treatise on the Sufferings of Christ" (New York, 1845) ; " A Treatise on New England Revivals" (1846); and two series of " Letters to Dr. Horace Bushnell on Christian Nurture" (1847-'8). After his death his "Lectures on Theology " were published with a memoir by his son-in-law, the Reverend Nahum Eale, D. D. (Boston, 1859).