Foreign Office minister Sir Eyre Crowe also wrote a memorandum to the British cabinet claiming that " a solemn league and covenant " would just be " a treaty, like other treaties ".

* January 22 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Wandiwash in India, British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the French under the Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau.

A glittering crowd attended the first night in London, including Captain ( later Captain Sir ) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act (" Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true love kept under / Could thy brigade with cold cascade / Quench my great love, I wonder ?").

After the Everyman, Pryce joined the director Sir Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse and starred in the Trevor Griffiths play Comedians in a role specially written for his talents, Gethin Price.

Among other works in St Paul's Cathedral are the monuments to Captain Westcott and Captain Burges, and in Westminster Abbey to Sir Eyre Coote.

Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, Governor Hastings had sent General Sir Eyre Coote south from Bengal to take charge of British forces opposing Hyder.

* Sir Richard Eyre CBE ( 1988 – 1997 )

Sir Eyre Coote, serving in the British forces, estimated the enemy's strength as 40, 000 cavalry, 60, 000 infantry and thirty cannon.

Some noted members include Sir Thomas Clarke, the Master of the Rolls, Sir James Eyre, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Samuel Romilly, a noted law reformer.

Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB ( 1726 – 28 April 1783 ) was an Irish soldier.

His nephew was Sir Eyre Coote, GCB who served as Governor General of India.

* Sheppard E. W. Coote Bahadur: A Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB Werner Laurie 1956

Sir Eyre Crowe, British undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, spoke against a union of East Galicia and Poland.

Only two people were ever degraded — Lord Cochrane in 1813 and General Sir Eyre Coote in 1816, both for political reasons, rather than any of the grounds given in the statute.

The British delegation included the 11th Lord Reay ( Donald James Mackay ), Sir Ernest Satow and Eyre Crowe.

* Sir Orfeo, edited by Edward Eyre Hunt, Cambridge: Harvard Co-operative Society, 1909.

She demanded the resignation of Sir Edward Grey, Lord Robert Cecil, General Sir William Robertson and Sir Eyre Crowe, whom she considered too mild and dilatory in method.

# Sir Eyre Hutson: 25 April 1925-22 November 1929

Award-winning director Sir Richard Eyre is set to direct with Jon Robin Baitz, in place to pen the stage play.

A 1974 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, directed by Ronald Eyre, with Donald Sinden as Sir Harcourt Courtly, ( for which he received the 1975 Drama Desk Special Award ) Roger Rees as Charles, Judi Dench as Grace and Dinsdale Landen as Dazzle, transferred to the Albery Theatre in London for a year, prior to its tour to New York.

He was defeated by Sir Eyre Coote at the Battle of Wandiwash ( 1760 ), and besieged in Pondicherry and forced to capitulate in 1761.

There Sir Eyre Coote took command of the army, and in 1781 won a major victory against Hyder Ali at Porto Novo ( Parangipettai ), where Munro was in command of the right division.

* Sir Sackville Crowe of England ( 1611 ?– 1683?

* 1942 – 1943: Sir Edward Crowe

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Sir Joseph Archer Crowe ( London 25 October 1825

( 1824 – 1910 ), Sir Joseph Archer Crowe ( 1825 – 1896 ), and George Crowe ( 1840 – 1889 ), husband of the actress Kate Bateman.

Sir Sackville Crowe, 1st Baronet, ( 1611 ?- 1683?

As well as Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Clara Butt, other famous guests of the hotel have included: munitions heiress Bertha Krupp, who donated a Bechstein grand piano to the hotel ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, for whom the Blue Mountains were the inspiration for The Lost World ; and more recently, Russell Crowe who was asked to remove his baseball cap while dining in the Great Dining Hall in 1994.

Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe GCB GCMG ( 30 July 1864 – 28 April 1925 ) was a British diplomat.

The historian Richard Hamilton states: " Though a life-long Liberal, Crowe came to despise the Liberal Cabinets of 1906 – 1914, including Sir Edward Grey, for what he perceived as their irresolute attitude to Germany ".

Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick said Crowe was:

* Sibyl Crowe and Edward Corp, Our Ablest Public Servant: Sir Eyre Crowe GCB, GCMG, KCB, KCMG, 1864-1925 ( Devon: Merlin, 1993 ).

* Edward Corp, ‘ Sir Eyre Crowe and the Administration of the Foreign Office, 1906-1914 ’, The Historical Journal, Vol.

* Edward Corp, ‘ The problem of promotion in the career of Sir Eyre Crowe, 1905 – 1920 ’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 28 ( 1982 ), pp. 236 – 49.

* Edward Corp, ‘ Sir Eyre Crowe and Georges Clemenceau at the Paris peace conference, 1919 – 1920 ’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 8 ( 1997 ), pp. 10 – 19.

Admiral Sir Dudley Pound commented: ' Who wants these sinkers-of-hospital-ships and machine-gunners-of-sailors-in-the-water at Admiral Beatty's funeral anyway?

Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs commented: " This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

At the time of its opening in 1934, The Times commented that the building displayed " the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture.

In the October 1982 edition MP Harvey Proctor called for the scrapping of the Commission for Racial Equality, Sir Patrick Wall commented on the ' Falkland Islands Campaign ', James Molyneaux had an article ' What Future for Ulster ', and Dr. Harvey Ward had an article on ' Zimbabwe Today '.

Leslie's reputation, guile and discretion were frequently noted by contemporary observers including the English officer John Aston and intellectual, Sir Cheney Culpeper who both commented on his qualities in their writings.

Callwell ’ s 2 volume “ Life and Diaries ” in 1927 damaged Wilson ’ s reputation – the “ New Statesman ” thought they showed him to be “ the typically stupid militarist … fundamentally a fool ” Sir Charles Deedes, who had studied under him at Staff College and later served on his staff, commented that Wilson came across in the diaries as “ an ambitious, volatile and even fatuous character, an intriguer concerned mainly with his own career ” and that this was “ far from the truth ” – Deedes commented that Wilson ’ s ability to see both sides of a question and inability to make a decision and stick to it made him a poor corps commander but a “ patient, lucid and fair ” adviser.

Both Archibald Wavell in the 1930s and Sir John Dill as CIGS in 1941 ( who commented that he no longer condemned Wilson ” so heartily as one used to ”) commented that Wilson had illustrated that a general must be able to work effectively with politicians, and his modern biographer Keith Jeffery comments that this, rather than Robertson ’ s acrimonious insistence on military autonomy, has been the model since Wilson ’ s time.

Riley-Smith further commented against the historical accuracy stating " nonsense like this will only reinforce existing myths ", arguing that the film " relied on the romanticized view of the Crusades propagated by Sir Walter Scott in his book The Talisman, published in 1825 and now discredited by academics.

Harold Hotelling wrote: " No technique of random sample has, so far as I can find, been developed in the United States or elsewhere, which can compare in accuracy with that described by Professor Mahalanobis " and Sir R. A. Fisher commented that " The ISI has taken the lead in the original development of the technique of sample surveys, the most potent fact finding process available to the administration ".

Sir John Maffey, the British Representative, commented that de Valera's actions were " unwise but mathematically consistent ".

At Cambridge, Bury became mentor to the medievalist Sir Steven Runciman, who later commented that he had been Bury's " first, and only, student.

The Times commented, " Mr Burnand's experience as a librettist of comic opera, and Sir Alexander Mackenzie's inexperience in this class of composition might lead the public to expect a brilliant book weighed down by music of too serious and ambitious a type.

Bobby Charlton commented that he “ I can ’ t think of a better museum anywhere in the world .” and Sir Alex Ferguson " Each time I visit the Museum I am so impressed by the great job it does in bringing the rich history of football to life ".

In a statement published in 2005 in The Guardian, Sir Timothy Clifford, director general of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, even chose Monticelli's A Garden Fete as the worst painting in Britain, and commented, " We have been bequested eight paintings by Monticelli, each one more hideous than the last.

Robert Burns commented that one of the first two books he read in private was the history of Sir William Wallace that poured a Scottish prejudice in my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest

The same paper commented, regarding his Sir Joseph Porter, " Mr. Reed's impersonation, prim, dry, roundly articulated ( and sung in tune, as some of his illustrious predecessors never attempted to do ), was eminently likeable.

William Hutchinson, a contemporary author writing about Sir John Hussey Delaval's Ford estate which included Ford Forge, commented as follows.

Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: " The song doesn't just say I like large butts, you know?

The British diplomat Sir Eric Phipps commented that “ The London Conference was for the French ' man in the street ' one long Calvary as he saw M. Herriot abandoning one by one the cherished possessions of French preponderance on the Reparations Commission, the right of sanctions in the event of German default, the economic occupation of the Ruhr, the French-Belgian railroad Régie, and finally, the military occupation of the Ruhr within a year ”.

These remarks bore an uncanny resemblance to the words of another leading judge of the era, Sir Nigel Bridge, who commented in a similar IRA-based miscarriage of justice, the Birmingham Six trial, that he wished that he could still hang murderers.

Numerous historians have commented on these unexplained omissions, William James noting that Douglas and Queen Charlotte were particularly unfortunate in this regard as the admiral normally aboard, Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, was ashore at the court-martial of Captain Anthony Molloy and consequently the ship received no recognition despite being the most heavily engaged of any in the British fleet.