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Grace House, Chile, 1882; successively manager, vice- president and president of the W. R. Grace Company, New York, 1893-1906; on the board of managers of the London branch of the Grace organization, 1906- . Was instrumental in bringing about the settle- ment of Peru's foreign debt after the war with Chile, managing for a time the different systems of railways turned over by that government to its creditors; in 1892 negotiated with the government of Chile the settlement of the claims against that government made by the holders of the Peruvian bonds, due to the seizure by Chile of the Guano deposits and other properties that constituted part of their guarantee from Peru; in 1898 Mr. Eyre, acting for an important American syndicate, obtained (jointly with Mr. E. F. Crayen) a concession from the government of

Nicaragua for the construction of a maritime canal through that country, the reaUzation of which was not permitted by the United States government; the text of the Eyre-Crayen concession was used, however, almost verbatim by the State department in the proposed treaty with Colombia for the completion of the Panama Canal and similarly later for the treaty actually made with the new RepubHc of Panama. Former president of the Marquette League; member of: the Board of Directors of The CathoUo Encyclopedia; the Council of the Westminster Catholic Federation; the Crusade of Rescue; Metropohtan Hospital; the Xavier Alunmi Sodality; St. Vincent de Paul Society; a governor of Cardinal Vaughan's Memorial school. Author of a criticism of Lord Bryce's book on South America.