Eyre
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Places
- Eyre, Isle of SkyeEyre, Isle of SkyeEyre is a settlement on the eastern shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the northern coast of Skye in Scotland....
, Skye, Scotland - Electoral district of EyreElectoral district of EyreEyre is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.The district covers large tracts of the rural south-east of Western Australia...
, Western Australia - Eyre River (Western Australia)Eyre River (Western Australia)The Eyre River is a river in the Great Southern of Western Australia.The headwaters of the river rise below Blackboy Hill approximately South of Wellstead and flows in a south easterly direction. The river discharges into Cheynes Inlet and on to the Southern Ocean.The river was named in 1850 by...
- Eyre HighwayEyre HighwayThe Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highway 1/A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first to...
, South and Western Australia - Eyre Bird ObservatoryEyre Bird ObservatoryEyre Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility in the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, Western Australia.Cocklebiddy is the nearest locality on the Eyre Highway 49 km to the north....
, Western Australia - Eyre PeninsulaEyre PeninsulaEyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf, the west by the Great Australian Bight, and the north by the Gawler Ranges. It is named after explorer Edward John Eyre who explored some of it in 1839-1841. The coastline was first explored by...
, South Australia - Eyre Creek (South Australia)Eyre Creek (South Australia)Eyre Creek is a short ephemeral waterway which is located in the Clare Valley. It runs along Main North Road, south from Leasingham and enters the Wakefield River just north of Auburn. It was named in honour of the explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored the area in 1839 during one of his...
- Lake EyreLake EyreLake Eyre is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world...
, Australia; also Lake Eyre BasinLake Eyre BasinThe Lake Eyre basin is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia. The Lake Eyre Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and amongst the largest in the world, covering about 1,200,000 square kilometres, including much of inland Queensland, large portions of South...
and Lake Eyre National ParkLake Eyre National ParkLake Eyre National Park is located in South Australia , 697 km north of Adelaide. It contains both the North and South sections of Lake Eyre as well as sections of the Tirari Desert.... - Eyre County, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Eyre River, New ZealandEyre River, New ZealandThe Eyre River is a river in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. It arises in the Puketeraki Range and flows south-east into the Waimakariri River near Christchurch International Airport. The connection with the Waimakariri is via a diversion channel running south-west, replacing the Eyre's...
- Leyre (river), in southwestern France
- Eyre SquareEyre SquareJohn F. Kennedy Memorial Park is an inner-city public park in Galway, Ireland, formerly officially named Eyre Square and still widely known by that name...
, park in Galway, Ireland - Esperance PlainsEsperance PlainsEsperance Plains, also known as Eyre Botanical District, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia. Located on the south coast between the Avon Wheatbelt and Hampton regions, and bordered to the north by the Mallee region, it is a plain punctuated by granite and quartz outcrops and...
, a biogeographic region of Australia also known as Eyre Botanical District - Eyre HallEyre HallEyre Hall is a plantation home located in Northampton, Virginia, close to Cheriton. The property has been owned by the Eyre family since 1668. The plantation was placed on the National Register on 1969-11-12.-History:...
, home of the Eyre family in Virginia - Eyre, Saskatchewan, Canada
As a surname
- Banning Eyre, Canadian writer and guitarist
- Charles Petre EyreCharles Petre EyreCharles Petre Eyre was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Archbishop of Glasgow from 1878 to 1902.Born at Askham Bryan Hall, Askham Bryan, near York, England on November 7, 1817, he was the fifth of nine children of John Lewis Eyre and Sara Eyre, née Parker . His father later became a...
, Archbishop of Glasgow - Damian EyreWalsh Street police shootingsThe Walsh Street police shootings was the 1988 murder of two Victoria Police officers, Constables Steven Tynan, 22, and Damian Eyre, 20. The officers were responding to a report of an abandoned car when they were gunned down about 4.50am in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on 12 October...
, Australian police officer murdered in 1988 - Daniel James Eyre, current Taplow United F.C. footballer
- Edward John EyreEdward John EyreEdward John Eyre was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica....
, Australian explorer and Jamaican Governor - George EyreGeorge EyreSir George Eyre, KCB, KCMG was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Red....
(d. 1839), Royal Navy officer - Ivan EyreIvan EyreIvan Kenneth Eyre, OM is a Canadian painter.- Life :Eyre attended the University of Manitoba School of Art and the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. He studied under artists Eli Bornstein, Wynona Mulcaster, Ernest Lindner, and George Swinton...
, Canadian artist - James EyreJames EyreSir James Eyre was an English judge, the son of the Rev. Thomas Eyre, of Wells, Somerset.-Biography:He was educated at Winchester College and at St John's College, Oxford, which he left without taking a degree. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1755, Thomas Parker, chief baron of the...
, 18th century English judge - Jehu EyreJehu EyreJehu Eyre or Ayer was an American businessman, veteran of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War, and member of the influential Eyre family, which played a major role in the American Revolution and the early Republic...
, figure of the American Revolution - Les EyreLes EyreLes Eyre was a footballer who was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England and played for Norwich City.Eyre played 201 times for the Canaries, scoring 69 goals, between 1946 and 1951. His exploits as one of Norwich's all time leading scorers Les Eyre (7 January 1922 – 19 November 1991) was a...
, former Norwich City F.C. footballer - Manuel EyreManuel EyreManuel Eyre was a colonel in the Continental Army, a shipbuilder, and the brother of Revolutionary War heroes Benjamin and Jehu Eyre....
, figure of the American Revolution and powerful business leader in the early American Republic - Richard EyreRichard EyreSir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.-Biography:Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University...
, English film, theatre and TV director - Scott EyreScott EyreScott Alan Eyre is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.-Career:Eyre attended the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho and was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 9th round of the 1991 Major League Baseball Draft...
, Major League Baseball relief pitcher - Stephen Eyre, British politician
- Tommy EyreTommy EyreTommy Eyre was a session keyboardist from Sheffield, England, who appeared on records by Joe Cocker, John Martyn, Alex Harvey, Greg Lake, Michael Schenker, Gary Moore, B.B. King, John Mayall, Tracy Chapman and Wham!...
, English rock musician - William Eyre (disambiguation)
- Willie EyreWillie EyreWilliam Mays Eyre is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.-High school & college:Eyre was All-State at Cyprus High School...
, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
As a first name
- Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB was an Irish soldier. 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 British and France...
(1726–1783), Irish soldier - Eyre Coote (British Army officer) (1760–1823), Irish soldier, nephew of the above
- Eyre CroweEyre CroweSir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe GCB GCMG was a British diplomat. Crowe was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1907, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1911, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1917, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St...
(1864-1925), British diplomat - Eyre Crowe (painter)Eyre Crowe (painter)Eyre Crowe was an English painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism. He was born in London but 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...
(1824-1910), British painter - Eyre Evans CroweEyre Evans CroweEyre Evans Crowe was an English journalist and historian.He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connection with the Morning Chronicle, and he afterwards became a leading contributor to the Examiner and the Daily News...
(1799-1868), British journalist and historian - Eyre Massey ShawEyre Massey ShawCaptain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw KCB was the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade , and its predecessor, the London Fire Engine Establishment, from 1861 to 1891...
(1830-1908), Superintendent of London Fire Brigade
Other uses
- Eyre (legal term)Eyre (legal term)An Eyre or Iter was the name of a circuit traveled by an itinerant justice in medieval England, or the circuit court he presided over , or the right of the king to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal...
, in medieval England - Jane Eyre (fictional character), heroine the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name
See also
- Eyre legendEyre legendThe legend of the person who was the founder of the Eyre and Ayre families, and who was supposedly previously known by the surname "Truelove" , is a story that appears in genealogies...
, about the Eyre/Ayre family - Eyre Methuen, a publishing company
- ÉireÉireis the Irish name for the island of Ireland and the sovereign state of the same name.- Etymology :The modern Irish Éire evolved from the Old Irish word Ériu, which was the name of a Gaelic goddess. Ériu is generally believed to have been the matron goddess of Ireland, a goddess of sovereignty, or...
, island of Ireland - AyreAyreAyre is one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man and consists of the parishes of Andreas, Bride and Lezayre.Ayre is also a House of Keys constituency, electing a single MHK....