EYRE, ir, Edward, American financier: b. Dublin, Ireland, 25 March 1851. He was edu cated at the Jesuit school, Belvidere Place, Dr. Quinn's Preparatory School, and at Trinity Col lege. He entered the employ of Grace Brothers and Company, becoming junior partner in 1876 and full partner four years later. He was one of the original founders of Grace House, Chile, in 1882, and became successively manager, vice president and president of the W. R. Grace Company, New York, in 1903-06. Since 1906 he is a member of the board of managers of the London branch of W. R. Grace Company. Mr. Eyre took prominent part in bringing about a settlement of Peru's foreign debt after the war with Chile, and for some time was mana ger of the railroad systems handed over by Peru to its creditors. In 1892 he negotiated with Chile for the settlement of the claims against her made by the holders of the Peru vian bonds, due to the seizure by Chile of the guano deposits and other properties which formed part of the guarantee of the bonds from Peru. In 1898 Mr. Eyre, on behalf of an
American syndicate, obtained from Nicaragua a concession for the construction of an inter oceanic canal through that country, the project being subsequently held up by the government of the United States; the text of this conces sion was used later by the United States gov ernment in its treaty with Colombia and appears almost verbatim in the treaty actually concluded between the United States and the Republic of Panama. Mr. Eyre was a member of the board of directors of The Catholic Encyclo pmdia) and the council of the Westminster Catholic Federation and is an ex-president of the Marquette League. He published a criti cism of Viscount Bryce's America : Ob servations and Impressions.)