John Eyre

John Eyre (1754-1803) was an Evangelical Anglican clergyman who studied at Trevecca College in Wales and then performed itinerant preaching in Cornwall, 1774-1778. He became curate of Weston in 1779 and later held curacies at Lewes (Sussex), Reading, and Chelsea. In 1785 he removed to the Episcopal chapel at Homerton where he remained until his death. He was a founding member of the London Missionary Society, Village Itinerancy, and, along with Samuel Greatheed and others, one of the first editors of the Evangelical Magazine. See DEB.