Eyre Evans Crowe (1799February 25, 1868) was an English journalist and historian.

Life

The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at

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. In the 1820s he turned to writing novels: V''ittoria Colonna, To-Day in Ireland'' (1825), ''The English in Italy'' (1825), ''Yesterday in Ireland'' (1829), and ''The English at Home'' (1830). In the early 1820s he became a regular contributor to '' Blackwood's Magazine''. Alongside American

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, he was one of two to exhibit the publisher's desired style notably well. Crowe commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press as Paris correspondent for the '' Morning Chronicle'' in 1832, non. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' and he afterwards became a leading contributor to '' The Examiner'' and the '' Daily News''. Of the latter journal he was principal editor for some time previous to his death. The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics. He published ''Lives of Foreign Statesmen'' (1830), ''The Greek and the Turk'' (1853), and ''Reigns of

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. and

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.'' (1854). These were followed by his most important work, the ''History of France'' (5 vols., 1858–1868). It was founded upon original sources, in order to consult which the author resided for a considerable time in

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Family

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

References

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Crowe, Eyre Evans (1799–1868)
, rev. Nilanjana Banerji, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 30 May 2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowe, Eyre Evans 1799 births 1868 deaths English journalists 19th-century English historians Crowe family