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SIR JAMES EYRE (1734-1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JAMES EYRE (1734-1799)  ,
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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
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left without taking a degree . He was called to the bar at Gray's
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Inn in 1755, and commenced practice in the lord mayor's and sheriffs' courts, having become by
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purchase one of the four counsel to the corporation of
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London . He was appointed recorder of London in 1763 . He was counsel for the
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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
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ministry, and he was appointed a judge of the
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exchequer in 1772 . From
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June 1792 to
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January 1793 he was chief
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commissioner of the
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great seal . In 1793 he was made chief justice of the
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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
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July 1799 and was buried at Ruscombe, Berkshire . See Howell, State Trials, xix .

(1154-1155) ;

Foss, Lives of the Judges .

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