About Us

At Charles Tyrwhitt (pronounced "Tirrit") we endeavor to produce the finest menswear, with timeless style and no compromise on quality. To top this off we provide exemplary customer service, with smashing prices and a pinch of British charm thrown in for good measure

You may wonder why a little bird appears on some of our products. Not any old bird, but a bird close to the heart of our founder, Nick Wheeler. When Nick started Charles Tyrwhitt back in 1986, he needed to come up with a name for his fledgling shirt company. “Nick Wheeler” didn’t cut the mustard, but his middle names Charles and Tyrwhitt felt right. Tyrwhitt was the name of Nick’s great-great (and a few more greats) grandfather Sir Hercules. Not even Nick is old enough to remember him, but Hercules was quite the man about town in 1107AD. Residing in Northumberland, during the Norman Conquest he was severely wounded defending a bridge against several assailants. He fell exhausted among the rushes of an adjoining swamp and into a nest of lapwings (in some counties called “Tyrwhitts”). Hercules’ friends found the spot where he lay thanks to the lapwings singing and hovering above him. From that day on, Hercules acquired the name Tyrwhitt, and Nick will be forever grateful to the little loud chirpers for inspiring the name of Charles Tyrwhitt.