Thomas Eyre (divine)

He began in 1791 to collect materials for a continuation of Dodd's "Church History of England," but the destruction of the English Catholic establishments abroad called him to a more active life and prevented him from proceeding with the work.

[2] In 1794 William Gibson desired him to take charge of the Northern students who had been expelled from Douai, and who were then temporarily at Tudhoe under John Lingard, who later became a famous historian, and who had not yet been ordained priest.

The John Daniel, president of Douay College, arrived at Crook Hall in the following year, and by virtue of his office assumed the charge of the students.

[2] In 1803 an estate called Ushaw was bought by Gibson, and here, early in 1804, the new college was begun, and in July, 1808, Eyre began to remove his community thither.

[2] Upon the death of Eyre, Lingard, having continued as vice-president, governed the college,[3] He published: His manuscript collections, in 2 vols.

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