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Captain Eyre M. Shaw
1862 of the London Fire Engine Establishment
Obituary 1908 [1]
. . . Sir Eyre was not by profession an engineer, but his life's work brought him into close touch with engineering matters, and he it was who practically founded the London Fire Brigade in its present form. . . [more]
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