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 ''

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'' 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 ''Reigns of

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. and

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.'' (1854). These were followed by his most important work, the ''History of France'' (5 vols., 1858–1868). It was founded upon original sources, in order to consult which the author resided for a considerable time in

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Family

Among his children were

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(1824–1910),

Sir Joseph Archer Crowe Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (25 October 1825, London – 6 September 1896, Gamburg an der Tauber, today Werbach, Germany) was an English journalist, consular official and art historian, whose volumes of the ''History of Painting in Italy'', co ...

(1825–1896), and George Crowe (1840–1889), husband of the actress

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References

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Crowe, Eyre Evans (1799–1868)
, rev. Nilanjana Banerji, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 30 May 2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowe, Eyre Evans 1799 births 1868 deaths English journalists 19th-century English historians Crowe family