Sir James Eyre (1734-1799)
Educated at Winchester College, St John's College, Oxford, and Gray's Inn, he was Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas (1793) and presided over the treason trials of Hardy, Tooke,
and Thelwall in 1794.
Educated at Winchester College, St John's College, Oxford, and Gray's Inn, he was Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas (1793) and presided over the treason trials of Hardy, Tooke,
and Thelwall in 1794.