LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799 DNB: Eyre, Sir James (bap. 1734, d. 1799), judge LBT ID: JaEyre1799 VIAF ID: 65546849 LOC ID: n88023657 | B/BAP: 1734-09-13 DIED: 1799-07-06 |
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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. | |
