| Admin_History | Thomas Eyre was born at Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1748. He attended the preparatory school at Esquerchin, Douai, before progressing to the parent English College at Douai in 1762. Following his ordination in 1775, he accepted an invitation to take charge of a mission which covered the area west of Newcastle to Hexham. In 1794, Eyre was appointed to Pontop Hall, near Consett, before Bishop William Gibson asked him to take temporary charge of a small number of refugee students who had fled Douai because of religious persecution. Eyre was then appointed to preside over a new college at Crook Hall and, after 1808, at Ushaw. Thomas Eyre died on 7 May 1810, leaving his entire fortune (£8640) to the college. |