It’s Eyre Crowe’s 200th birthday!
Eyre Crowe was born on 3 October 1824 at 141 Sloane Street in London. The house was demolished and rebuilt later on in the 19th century. He was the first child of the author and journalist Eyre Evans Crowe (1799-1868) and his wife Margaret Archer (c.1803-1853). On 10 November he was christened at St Luke’s Parish Church in Chelsea. The church was brand new, only consecrated three weeks earlier, on 18 October, to cater for the increasing population in the parish. The font now present in the church was dedicated in 1826, therefore young Eyre must have been baptised from another water container.
Next stop on the journey – Eyre Crowe’s art studies
Posted by Kathryn Summerwill 
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 