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3 unusual facts about Eyre


Freshford, County Kilkenny

The Eyre family came in 1879 and stayed till 1918 when the Maher brothers bought it.

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

He married, in 1939, Baroness Maria Alexandra, the daughter of Baron Heinrich von Puthon, of Schloss Mirabel, Salzburg, and had two sons and two daughters.

Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he attained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Marines in 1945, following which he embarked upon a political career.


1829 in sports

Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

Articles of Eyre

The eyre of 1194, was intitiated under Hubert Walter's justiciarship to restore royal justice following the anarchy of Prince John's rebellion.

Camellia hongkongensis

In Hong Kong, three individuals of the species were first discovered in a ravine in Victoria Peak by Colonel Eyre in 1849; it is later found in Pok Fu Lam, Mount Nicholson, Mount Parker on Hong Kong Island.

Charles Kingsley

Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens and Alfred Lord Tennyson, where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee.

Ctenophorus maculosus

maculosus is endemic to the three largest dry salt lakes of inner South Australia (Lake Eyre, Lake Callabonna, and Lake Torrens), with the densest population found in Lake Eyre.

EEFL

Eastern Eyre Football League, an Australian rules football competition based in the Eyre Peninsula region of South Australia

Ella Eyre

Eyre also features on Tinie Tempah's album Demonstration on the track "Someday (Place in the Sun)" which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 87 although was never released as a single.

Esperance Plains

The first biogeographical regionalisation of Western Australia, that of Ludwig Diels in 1906, included a region named "Eyre" that roughly encompassed the present-day Esperance Plains and Mallee regions.

Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina

Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina (24 May 1719–17 May 1804), was an Irish British army officer of the 18th century, known primarily for his successful action at La Belle-Famille during the French and Indian War.

Fred Eyre

As of 2009, Eyre co-commentates on Manchester City matches for BBC Radio Manchester.

Harry Stopes-Roe

His wife—Mary Eyre Wallis, later Mary Stopes-Roe—was the daughter of the noted engineer Barnes Wallis.

Hermione Gulliford

Television credits include the role of Kim in Oktober, one episode of The IT Crowd, the role of Sophie in Jane Eyre, and the role of Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet in Monarch of the Glen.

James Hastie

However Hastie and Eyre won Silver Goblets in 1880 beating Alexander Payne and F D Leader in the final and in 1881 beating Playford and P Adcock in the final.

John Evered

In his early 20's, he, his brother Stephen, their oldest sister Hannah and her husband John Ayer (Eyre) and children, on June 3, 1635, set sail for the New World, aboard the ship James.

John Gell

John Eyre Gell (died 1739), known as John Eyre before inheriting the Gell estate and mines, see Gell baronets

Lake Eyre basin

It too rises in northern Queensland, roughly between Mount Isa and Winton, flowing 800 kilometres south and west through Birdsville and the Channel Country to join the Georgina at Goyder Lagoon (and then, if there is sufficient flow, down Warburton Creek towards Lake Eyre).

Manchester Sports

Nigel Gleghorn is another summariser for Manchester City games and often alternates with Fred Eyre.

Midwest Football League

Mid West Football League, an Australian rules football competition based in the Eyre Peninsula region of South Australia

Morant Bay rebellion

Semmel, Bernard, The Governor Eyre Controversy, Macgibbon & Kee, 1962.

An opposing committee, which included such Tories and Tory socialists as Thomas Carlyle, Rev. Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, sprang up in Eyre's defence.

Newbridge, County Kildare

The origin of the modern town lies in the establishment of Cavalry Barracks (1815–1819) on land purchased from 3 local landlords: Eyre Powell of Great Connell, Ponsonby Moore of Moorefield and William Hannon of Kilbelin.

Ralph de Hengham

By 1260 he had become a clerk for the King's Bench, and later passed into the service of Richard of Middleton, with whom he served on the Eyre circuit of Martin of Littlebury in 1262, and on the circuit led by Middleton himself in 1268–1269.

Richard and Linda J. Eyre

During the Reagan administration, Eyre served as the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children.

Baptisms spiked in the mission after the results of an opinion poll on parenthood conducted by Eyre were published in such publications as the London Evening Standard.

Scott Eyre

Eyre was one of the victims of the $8 billion fraud perpetrated by wealth manager Allen Stanford.

Spanish Arch

In the 18th century the Eyre family of Eyrecourt, County Galway, created an extension of the quays called The Long Walk and created the arches to allow access from the town to the new quays.

St John's Wood Barracks

In November 2011 Ananda Krishnan, one of the richest businessmen in Asia, acquired the Barracks from the Eyre estate for £250m with a view to creating a prime residential development.

Tate Etc.

Articles: Peter Blake's A-Z polaroids, Paula Rego's illustrations for Jayne Eyre, Tom Morton on Tate Modern's 'Common Wealth' exhibition, Alan Davie: Myth & Gesture, Turner Prize: Justin Westover photographs the shortlisted artists.

Welford Park

The property then passed in 1706 by marriage to William Eyre, on condition he changed his name to Archer and subsequently (in 1800) to the MP, John Houblon, who also changed his name, to John Archer-Houblon.

Wynnere and Wastoure

In this interpretation, the poet could have travelled with Wingfield and Chief Justice Shareshull to Chester for a judicial enquiry, or eyre, recorded in 1353; the poem would have been a suitable entertainment for the banquet held by the Prince at Chester Castle for local administrators.


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