Sir James Eyre

(1734-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799 DNB: Eyre, Sir James (bap. 1734, d. 1799), judge LBT ID: JaEyre1799 VIAF ID: 65546849 LOC ID: n88023657	B/BAP: 1734-09-13 DIED: 1799-07-06
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Educated at Winchester College, St John's College, Oxford, and Gray's Inn, he was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1793) and presided over the treason trials of Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794.
REFERENCES TO Sir James Eyre: Samuel Parr to William Godwin, 10 November 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXII. 1817 Found 1: ¶ n1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 6: ¶ 57 ¶ 72 ¶ 73 ¶ 75 ¶ 76 ¶ 84