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EYRE, SIR JAMES (1734-1799)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 102 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EYRE, SIR JAMES (1734-1799) , English judge, was the son of the Rev.
Thomas
  Eyre, of Wells, Somerset. He was educated at Winchester College and at St John's College, Oxford, which, however, he left without taking a degree. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1755, and commenced practice in the lord mayor's and sheriffs' courts, having become by purchase one of the four counsel to the
corporation
  of London. He was appointed recorder of London in 1763. He was counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Wilkes v.
Wood
 , and made a brilliant speech in condemnation of the execution of general search warrants. His refusal to voice the remonstrances of the
corporation
  against the exclusion of Wilkes from
parliament
  earned him the recognition of the ministry, and he was appointed a judge of the exchequer in 1772. From June 1792 to January 1793 he was
chief
 
commissioner
  of the
great
  seal. In 1793 he was made
chief
  justice of the common pleas, and presided over the trials of Horne Tooke,
Thomas
  Crosfield and others, with
great
  ability and impartiality. He died on the 1st of July 1799 and was buried at Ruscombe, Berkshire.
See Howell, State Trials, xix. (1154-1155) ; Foss, Lives of the Judges.


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