John Eyre (Archdeacon of Sheffield)

John Rashdall Eyre was an Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[1]

Memorial in Sheffield Cathedral

He was born 21 June 1845, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge.^[2] Ordained in 1873,^[3] he was a minor canon at Chester Cathedral, Rural Dean of Toxteth, Vicar of St Helens, Merseyside and Rector of Tiverton before being appointed Archdeacon of Sheffield^[4] in 1895,^[5] a post he held until his death on 12 June 1912.^[6] Three years later his son, Charles, was killed in action during the First World War.