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Charles Petrie Eyre, first Archbishop of Glasgow in the restored Catholic hierarchy of Scotland, was born in York on 7 November 1817, the son of John Lewis Eyre (d 1880), later Director of the South Western Railway Company, and his wife, Sarah Parker (d 1825). Four of John Lewis Eyre's five sons became priests including Charles. He was educated at Ushaw College, Dublin, from 1826 and became deacon in May 1838. From 1839 he attended the English College in Rome, where he was ordained on 19 March 1842. He was made privy chamberlain on 6th January 1843 and stationed at St. Mary, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was missioner at Wooler, 1849-1850 and at Haggerstone Castle, near Berwick-on-Tweed, 1850-1856. Eyre was assistant priest, priest and rector in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1856-1868. In 1868 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle and on 11 December 1868 titular Archbiship of Anazarbus. In 1869 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Scotland and was, from the restoration of the hierarchy on 4 March 1878, Archbishop of Glasgow until his death in 1902. Eyre devoted much of his life to historical scholarship and published several books; including 'History of St Cuthbert' (1849), 'Dame Marion Boyd' (c 1900), 'The History of the Ancient See of Glasgow' (1888), 'A Memoir of Archbishop James Beaton the last of the old Archbishops of Glasgow. 1525-1603' (1891) and contibuted to 'Book of Glasgow Cathedral, A history and description' by George Eyre-Todd (Glasgow 1898). He was awarded honourary LLD from the University of Glasgow in 1892. He died in Glasgow on 27 March 1902.
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