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{{Infobox military person<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]<br />
| name = Vincent Eyre<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]]<br />
| image = Vincent_Eyre.jpg<br />
| caption = Vincent Eyre<br />
| rank = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]]<br />
| branch = [[East India Company]]<br/>[[British Indian Army]]<br />
| commands = <br />
| unit = <br />
| battles = [[First Anglo-Afghan War]]<br/>[[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]]<br />
| awards = <br />
| family = <br />
| nickname = <br />
| allegiance = [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1811|01|22|df=y}}<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1881|09|22|1811|01|22|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Portsdown, Portsmouth<br />
| death_place = [[Aix-les-Bains]], France<br />
| placeofburial = <br />
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}}<br />
[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Sir Vincent Eyre''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CB}} (22 January 1811 – 22 September 1881<ref name="DNB" />) was an officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]], who saw [[active service]] in [[India]] and [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="Norvicensian I">{{cite book|last=Drake|first=W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPAHAAAAQAAJ|title=The Norvicensian|publisher=[[Norwich School]]|year=1880|volume=1|location=Norwich|page=88|language=en|chapter=Reminisccences of the Late Vincent Eyre, K.C.B. (Part I)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPAHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Born in [[Portsdown Hill|Portsdown]], [[Portsmouth]] on 22 January 1811, Eyre was the third son of Captain Henry Eyre and was educated at [[Norwich School]].<ref name="Norvicensian I" /><br />
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==Military career==<br />
[[File:Prison Sketches. Comprising portraits of the Cabul prisoners, and other subjects (BM 1970,0527.2.1).jpg|alt=|thumb|Self-portrait of Lieutenant Vincent Eyre from ''Prison Sketches. Comprising portraits of the Cabul prisoners, and other subjects'']]<br />
In 1827, he entered the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] and the service of the [[East India Company]]. He joined the [[Bengal Army|Bengal Artillery]] in 1828, and in 1829 arrived in [[Calcutta]]. In 1837 he was appointed to the horse artillery and promoted Lieutenant. Two years later, he was appointed Commissary of Ordnance to the [[Cabul field force]]. In January 1842, During the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]], Eyre and his family were captured by [[Wazir Akbar Khan|Akbar Khan]]. During nearly nine months in captivity, Eyre kept a diary describing his experiences, illustrated by the sketches of other officers and ladies. The manuscript was smuggled out to a friend in [[British India]] and was then published in England as ''Military Operations at Cabul'' (1842). The Eyre family were rescued by [[Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet|Sir George Pollock]] in September 1842. In 1844 Eyre was appointed to command the artillery of the new [[Gwalior Fort|Gwalior contingent]]. He was responsible for the relief of the [[Siege of Arrah]]. He took part in the [[Siege of Lucknow|Relief of Lucknow]], during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. He was promoted [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] that year and [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] the following year.<br />
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In 1857 he founded [[Esapore|Esapóre]] (or the "Abode of Christians"),<ref name="Norvicensian II">{{cite book|last=Drake|first=W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPAHAAAAQAAJ|title=The Norvicensian|publisher=[[Norwich School]]|year=1880|volume=1|location=Norwich|pages=100–103|language=en|chapter=Reminisccences of the Late Vincent Eyre, K.C.B. (Part II)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPAHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100}}</ref> a colony for destitute families of Portuguese descent.<ref name="Poetry">{{Cite book|last=Reilly|first=Catherine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzRDJeN4KxQC|title=Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879|publisher=A&C Black|year=2000|isbn=9780720123180|pages=157}}</ref> In 1861, [[Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning|Lord Canning]] selected Eyre to serve on a commission set up to consider amalgamating the [[Presidency armies]] of the [[East India Company]] with the [[British Army]].<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Eyre, Vincent|volume=18}}</ref> In 1863 he was ordered home on sick leave and retired as a [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]].<ref name="Norvicensian II" /><br />
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He was appointed a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]] in 1867.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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==Later activities==<br />
Finding himself in France during the [[Franco-Prussian War]], Eyre set up an ambulance service under the auspices of the [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red Cross]]. In his later years, he spent the winters in Rome. He died in [[Aix-les-Bains]], France, on 22 September 1881.<ref name="DNB" /> His remains were brought to London and a tomb was erected for him in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]]. A sketch of his tomb is archived in the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tomb of Sir Vincent Eyre in Kensal Green Cemetery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw194875/Tomb-of-Sir-Vincent-Eyre-in-Kensal-Green-Cemetery|access-date=12 July 2020|website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref><br />
[[File:-Colonel Vincent Eyre C.B. Bengal Artillery, "The Hero of Arrah" and Mrs Eyre- MET DP146116.jpg|thumb|Photograph (1858–1861) of Mr and Mrs Eyre]]<br />
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==Publications==<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18557296|title=The Military Operations at Cabul, which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842|publisher=John Murray|year=1842|edition=1|location=London}}<br />
** {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/17793/view/1/1/|title=The Military Operations at Cabul, which Ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January 1842|publisher=John Murray|year=1843|edition=2|location=London|author-mask=6}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/17792/view/1/1/|title=Prison Sketches, Comprising Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners, and Other Subjects|publisher=Dickinson & Son|year=1843|location=London|author-mask=6}}<br />
* {{Cite journal|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|author-mask=6|date=1867|title=The Sikh and European Soldiers of our Indian Forces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJUEAAAAQAAJ|journal=The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution|volume=11|issue=43|pages=86–103|doi=10.1080/03071846709433586}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-_uZ-m7ZBUC|title=A Retrospect of the Affghan War: With Reference to Passing Events in Central Asia|publisher=W. H. Allen & Co.|year=1869|location=London|author-mask=6}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFMCAAAAQAAJ|title=Lays of a Knight-Errant in Many Lands|publisher=Henry S. King & Co|year=1874|location=London|author-mask=6}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|title=The old stories of Rome: a Lent lecture in verse and prose, dedicated to the British and American Archaelogical Society|publisher=Tipografia Romana|year=1875|location=Rome|author-mask=6}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Eyre|first=Vincent|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/17695/view/1/3/|title=The Kabul Insurrection of 1841‒42|publisher=W. H. Allen & Company|year=1879|editor-last=Malleson|editor-first=George Bruce|editor-link=George Bruce Malleson|location=London|author-mask=6}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Malleson|first=George Bruce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQ2SsuCjUccC|title=Recreations of an Indian Official|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co.|year=1872|location=London|pages=249–329|author-link=George Bruce Malleson}}<br />
* {{Cite ODNB|id=9040|title=Eyre, Sir Vincent|first=James|last=Lunt}}<br />
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5leAAAAcAAJ|title=Memorandum of Services of Colonel Vincent Eyre|publisher=W. Clowes and Sons|year=1863|location=London}}<br />
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