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Robert Phayre (British Army Officer)
Robert Phayre may refer to: * Robert Phayre (regicide) (1619?–1682), officer in the Irish Protestant and then the New Model armies, regicide of Charles I of England * Robert Phayre (Indian Army officer) (1820–1897) * Robert Phayre (cricketer) (1901–1993), British soldier and cricketer {{hndis, Phayre, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Phayre (regicide)
Colonel Robert Phaire, (1619?–1682), was an officer in the Irish Protestant and then the New Model armies and one of the regicide of Charles I of England. He was one of the three officers to whom the warrant for the execution of Charles I was addressed, but he escaped severe punishment at the Restoration by having married the daughter of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606–1682). He became a Muggletonian in 1662. Among some of his descendants in the later 1700s the surname was modified to Phair however caution is recommended because some families who were not descendants (such as some of the surname Fair) also took on this spelling. The senior line (descendants of Onesiphorus), continued the spelling Phaire until the early 1800s when they restyled to Phayre). Early life Phaire was born about 1619 (for on 24 March 1654 his age is reported as thirty-five), the son of the Revd Emmanuel Phaire from Devonshire, who had migrated to Ireland and in 1612 became rector of Kilshannig, county Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Phayre (Indian Army Officer)
General Sir Robert Phayre Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (22 January 1820 – 28 January 1897) was a General in the British Indian Army, Indian Army who served most of his military career in India including in the First Afghan War, the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Second Afghan War, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Indian Mutiny and who was Residencies of British India, Resident at Baroda from 1873 to 1874 during which period Maharaja Malhar Rao Gaekwad, precipitated the Baroda Crisis and then attempted to poison Phayre, by putting arsenic and diamond dust in his sherbet. Early career He was the son of Richard Phayre and Mary ''née'' Ridgeway of Shrewsbury, and a brother of General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre. His father was grandson of Colonel Robert Phayre, of Killoughram Forest. They were part of the Phayre Family, of which Lt Col Robert Phayre (regicide), Robert Phayre, who served the British administration in Ireland in the 17th-century, also had the death warrant of Charles I of Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
