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Eyre (given Name)
Eyre is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Eyre Coote (East India Company officer) (1726–1783), Irish soldier *Eyre Coote (British Army officer) (1760–1823), Irish soldier, nephew of the above *Eyre Crowe (1864-1925), British diplomat *Eyre Crowe (painter) Eyre Crowe (1824–1910) was a British author and painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism. Early life He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalis ... (1824-1910), British author and painter * Eyre Evans Crowe (1799-1868), British journalist and historian * Eyre Massey Shaw (1830-1908), Superintendent of London Fire Brigade {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Coote (East India Company Officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB (1726 – 28 April 1783) was a British soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780. He is best known for his many years of service with the British Army in India. His victory at the Battle of Wandiwash is considered a decisive turning point in the struggle for control in India between Britain and France. He was known by his sepoy troops as Coote Bahadur (Coote the Brave). Early life A member of the Coote family headed by the Earl of Mountrath, he was born in Kilmallock, near Limerick, Ireland, the son of the Reverend Chidley Coote and Jane Evans, daughter of George Evans, and sister of George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery. He entered the 27th Regiment of Foot. He first saw active service in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and later obtained a captaincy in the 39th Regiment, the first regular British regiment to serve in India. Career in India Recapture of Calcutta In 1756 a part of the regiment, then quartered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Coote (British Army Officer)
Eyre Coote (20 May 1762 – 10 December 1823) was an Irish-born British soldier and politician who served as Governor of Jamaica. He attained the rank of general in the British Army and was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath before being stripped of his rank and honours in 1816 after conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Background He was the second son of the Very Rev. Charles Coote (1713 – 12 February 1776), DD, Dean of Kilfenora and wife (m. 31 July 1753) Grace Tilson (- 1 January 1767), brother of Charles Henry Coote (1754–1823), who succeeded the last Earl of Mountrath as 2nd Baron Castle Coote in 1802, and nephew of Sir Eyre Coote, KB, the celebrated Indian General, to whose vast estates in England and Ireland he eventually succeeded. Career Following studies at Eton and Trinity College Dublin, Coote purchased a commission in 1774 as an ensign in the 37th Regiment of Foot, of which his uncle Lieutenant- General Sir Eyre Coote was colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Crowe
Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe (30 July 1864 – 28 April 1925) was a British diplomat, an expert on Germany in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is best known for his vehement warning, in 1907, that Germany's expansionism was motivated by animosity towards Britain and should provoke a closer Entente Cordiale between the British Empire and France. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Crowe worked with the French President Georges Clemenceau. Although Lloyd George and Crowe's rivals in the Foreign Office tried to prevent his promotion and lessen his influence, Crowe served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1920 until his death in 1925, as a consequence of his patronage by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon. Early life Half-German, Crowe was born in Leipzig in 1864. He was educated at Düsseldorf, at Berlin, and in France. His father, Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896), was a British Consul-General and Chief European Commercial Attaché betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Crowe (painter)
Eyre Crowe (1824–1910) was a British author and painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism. Early life He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe, whose son Eyre Crowe became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of William Darley and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris. Career He travelled in the United States as amanuensis to William Makepeace Thackeray between 1852 and 1853. He published ''With Thackeray in America'' (1893) and ''Thackeray's Haunts and Homes'' (1897). He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. Selected works *''A Slave Sale in Charleston, South Carolina'' (1854; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba) *''Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia'' (1861; Private coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Evans Crowe
Eyre Evans Crowe (1799February 25, 1868) was an English journalist and historian. Life The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In the 1820s he turned to writing novels: V''ittoria Colonna, To-Day in Ireland'' (1825), ''The English in Italy'' (1825), ''Yesterday in Ireland'' (1829), and ''The English at Home'' (1830). His work appeared as well in ''Blackwood's Magazine''. He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press as Paris correspondent for the ''Morning Chronicle'' in 1832, non. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' and he afterwards became a leading contributor to '' The Examiner'' and the '' Daily News''. Of the latter journal he was principal editor for some time previous to his death. The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics. He published ''Lives of Foreign Statesmen'' (1830), ''The Greek and the Turk'' (1853), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
