Education
Shrewsbury School.
naturalist Zoologist Governor of Mauritius
Shrewsbury School.
Phayre was born in Shrewsbury and educated at Shrewsbury School. He joined the Indian Army in 1828. In 1846 he was appointed assistant to the commissioner of the province of Tenasserim, Burma, and in 1849 he was made commissioner of Arakan.
After the Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852), he became commissioner of Pegu.
He was made a Brevet Captain in 1854 and in 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel.