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Eyrecourt and Eyreville branches of the Eyre Family
When Cromwell's army turned towards Ireland to put down the Great
Rebellion part of his army was a cavalry regiment which came from
Wiltshire and Giles EYRE (bap.1600) was a young officer in that
service. As a result of the campaign grants of estate saw the
development of Eyrecourt in county Galway. This was to remain in the
Eyre family until around 1894.
This branch includes a high proprtion of indivuduals who are well
documented for differening reasons, from being written about in books
on eccentrics through to a particular concentration descended from
John and Eleanor Maria Eyre whose descendants;
- married the chairman of Imperial Continental Gas (now Calor Gas) who
along with his brother inherited and absurdly large fortune in the
1860 estimated to be £100m.
- became Field Marshall Auchinleck (head of) the UK army.
- married the Managing Director of Guinness who was instrumental in
the creation of the Guinness Book of Records.
- married the founder of Household Financial in the USA and inheriting
a controlling interest in what became HSBC before marrying a Spanish
Marques and having two children. One of these children competed in the
Grand National, 1956 Winter Olympics Bob Sleigh, drove for Ferrari in
F1, married a showgirl and had an affair and bigamously married a
supermodel fathering three children between them before filing for
divorce from his first wife before dying in a motor racing accident
that put an end to the Mille Miglia motor race. All this by age 28.
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