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 HENRY EYRE. 



Henry Eyre was born on November 14th, 18 15, at 

 Beverly, in Yorkshire, the second son of the Rev. 

 James Eyre, Rector of Kirk Ella and Canon of York, 

 and Penelope Phipps Eyre. He was educated at Bev- 

 erly Grammar School, and in 1829 went to Rio de 

 Janeiro, where he began his business career with the 

 well-known house of Phipps & Co. of that place 

 and Liverpool. In May, 1839, he came to New 

 York and started the firm of J. L. Phipps & Co., 

 which still exists. Retiring from that firm in 1850, 

 he established the house of Henry Eyre & Co. in 

 New York, and Eyre, Moke & Co. in New Orleans, 

 in connection with Johnson & Co. of Liverpool, Rio 

 de Janeiro and Pernambuco. In 1852 he went into 

 business for himself in the South American and 

 China trade, and at one time was one of the largest 

 importers in this city. He was for many years a Di- 

 rector of the New York Branch of the Royal In- 

 surance Company of Liverpool, the Bank of the 

 Republic and the Continental Insurance Company, 

 and a Warden of the Church of the Incarnation. 



He married in 1849 Georgina, third daughter of 

 John Eyre, Esq., of Eyre Court, County Galway, 

 Ireland, who died in 1873, leaving five sons, four 

 of whom became life members of the St. George's 

 Society, and one daughter. 



Mr. Henry Eyre was elected a member of the 



