Background
Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire.
Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire.
He studied at Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles Darwin.
After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall. Eyton published History of the Rarer British Birds (1836), A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe (1838), A History of Oyster and Oyster Fisheries (1858) and Osteologia Avium (1871-1878). He established in about 1842 the "Herd Book of Hereford Cattle", which he edited until 1860
Eyton was married in 1835 to Eizabeth Frances Slaney, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Robert Aglionby Slaney Member of Parliament. She pre-deceased him by ten years.
He was a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) and a Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire.
He served in the South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry, entering as cornet in 1830, and promoted lieutenant in 1838.
Linnean Society of London. Zoological Society of London.