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Edwin James Tyler (13 October 1864 – 25 January 1917) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1907. Tyler also played one Test match for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895–96.

Tyler was a left-handed bowler. He played much of his early cricket for the Kidderminster Club, and for two years, 1885 and 1886, he was in the Worcestershire eleven, bowling with success in 1885. Then came his connection with Somerset and his fame as a slow bowler.

Early life and career
Tyler was born on 13 October 1864, in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. An early profile of him in an 1890 edition of Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game describes him as having "more than ordinary promise as a boy player". He first came to prominence with Kidderminster Cricket Club, for whom he took seven wickets for fifteen runs in one match during 1884; all seven being stumped.