General Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina (24 May 1719 – 17 May 1804) was a British Army officer best known for his victory at the Battle of La Belle-Famille during the French and Indian War.

[2] The 27th foot, of which his fellow Limerickman General William Blakeney was colonel, fought at Porto Bello, Panama, with Admiral Vernon, in 1739, and the few survivors returned home in December 1740.

This action took place in view of Fort Niagara, which surrendered immediately afterwards, leaving the whole region of the Upper Ohio in possession of the British.

Massey was transferred to his old regiment, the 27th Inniskillings, at his own request, and commanded the grenadiers of the army in the advance on Montreal in 1760.

[3] However, in some letters to General Sir John Vaughan around 1793–4, Massey relates his disappointments in not obtaining a military command, and his vexations at the appointment by the Marquis of Buckingham, the lord-lieutenant, of 'Popish children' (Master Talbot, aged eight, Master Skerritt, aged nine, and others), to ensigncies in his regiment.

[2] Massey was raised to the Peerage of Ireland on 27 December 1800, under the title of Baron Clarina of Elm Park, County Limerick.

He died a full general, colonel of the 27th Inniskilling foot, Marshal of the Army in Ireland, and governor of Limerick and of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on 17 May 1804, aged 85.