Eyre Coote (British Army officer, born 1762)
Eyre Coote (20 May 1762 – 10 December 1823) was an Irish-born British soldier and politician who served as Governor of Jamaica. He attained the rank of general in the British Army and was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath before being stripped of his rank and honours in 1816 after conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
For his uncle, Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, see Eyre Coote (East India Company officer).
Eyre Coote
10 December 1823 (aged 61)
- Sarah Rodbard (1765–1795)
- Jane Bagwell
Catherine, Sarah and Susannah and Eyre Coote.
- Charles Coote (1713 – 12 February 1776)
- Grace Tilson (d. 1767)
Background[edit]
He was the second son of the Very Rev. Charles Coote (1713 – 12 February 1776), DD, Dean of Kilfenora and wife (m. 31 July 1753) Grace Tilson (- 1 January 1767), brother of Charles Henry Coote (1754–1823), who succeeded the last Earl of Mountrath as 2nd Baron Castle Coote in 1802, and nephew of Sir Eyre Coote, KB, the celebrated Indian General, to whose vast estates in England and Ireland he eventually succeeded.
Family[edit]
He had eight children with three women and was twice married: first to Sarah (1765–1795), daughter of John Rodbard, left three daughters – Catherine, Sarah and Susannah; and second to Jane, daughter of Col. John Bagwell, left one son, Eyre Coote. Sarah Rodbard is the subject of one of George Romney's paintings.
Coote also had children with a Jamaican slave woman named Sally with whom he had four children. Susan Coote, born 1812, William Coote, born 1807, John Coote, born 1812 and Henry Coote, born 1818.
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