John Eyre (Archdeacon of Sheffield)

John Rashdall Eyre was an Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] He was born 21 June 1845, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge.

[2] Ordained in 1873,[3] he was a minor canon at Chester Cathedral, Rural Dean of Toxteth, Vicar of St Helens, Merseyside and Rector of Tiverton before being appointed Archdeacon of Sheffield[4] in 1895,[5] a post he held until his death on 12 June 1912.

[6] Three years later his son, Charles, was killed in action during the First World War.

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