Robert Eyton (21 June 1845 – 7 August 1908) was an Anglican priest, Rector of

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from 1895 to 1899. The second son of

Robert William Eyton Robert William Eyton (21 December 1815 – 8 September 1881) was an English Church of England clergyman who was author of ''The Antiquities of Shropshire''. Life and career Robert William Eyton was born in 1815. He was the son of Reverend John Eyt ...

, Robert Eyton was educated at

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and

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, matriculating in 1864 aged 19, graduating

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1869 (

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1872), and was ordained in 1870. He became Sub-Almoner to the Queen (1883), Rector of Upper Chelsea (1884), a prebendary of

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(1885), and was appointed a Canon of

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and Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster in December 1895. In January 1899, Eyton resigned suddenly. Although his obituary later gave the cause as "complete breakdown under mental strain," this is believed to be due to a homosexuality scandal. He emigrated to Australia in 1900 as Rector of

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, and was appointed Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bathurst in 1903. Having fallen ill after mistakenly taking

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instead of cough mixture, he died on 7 August 1908, aged 63, in

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