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    Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw KCB (17 January 1830 – 25 August 1908) was the first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now renamed the London...
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    Massey Shaw is a former London Fire Brigade fireboat, named after the first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw...
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  • painter Eyre Evans Crowe (1799-1868), British journalist and historian Eyre Massey Shaw (1830-1908), Superintendent of London Fire Brigade This page or section...
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    1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 90), under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It has 5,992 staff, including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers...
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  • Ernesto Shaw (1921–1962), Argentine marine and Roman Catholic businessman Esther Popel Shaw (1896–1958), poet of the Harlem Renaissance Eyre Massey Shaw, British...
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    incorporated into the city's Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1865 under Eyre Massey Shaw. In 1879, the University of Notre Dame established the first University-based...
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    screenwriter and novelist Peter Shaffer, playwright and screenwriter Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Alan Sillitoe...
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    Merryweather helmet in 1868 following a visit to Paris by Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw. In 1798, the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army introduced a crested...
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    modelled on the helmets of the Sapeurs-pompiers which Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw had seen on a visit to Paris and introduced to the Metropolitan Fire...
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    Captain Sir) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophises in the second act ("Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true...
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    The knot was first introduced by the Victorian chief fire officer Eyre Massey-Shaw in 1876 on a windy afternoon while slightly inebriated. Made with suitable...
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  • 1995). Mervyn Wall, novelist and dramatist (died 1997). 17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade (born 1830;...
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    Manning, Oscar Wilde, Ouida, James Payn, George Augustus Henry Sala, Eyre Massey Shaw, Arthur Sullivan, William James Erasmus Wilson, and Garnet Wolseley...
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  • September 1861 the Belfast Fire Brigade was under the leadership of Eyre Massey Shaw, who, during his short period as superintendent, produced reports in...
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  • the company worked with the chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Eyre Massey Shaw and with competitor Merryweather & Sons, to perfect designs for land-based...
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  • control of the Metropolitan Board of Works and under the leadership of Eyre Massey Shaw. July: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson opens the St Mary's Dispensary in...
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    museum was located in Winchester House, the former home of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, who was Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. It was the...
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    Establishment (which later became the London Fire Brigade). 1861 1891 Captain Eyre Massey Shaw First Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. 1891 1896 James...
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  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (died 1904 in the United States). 17 January – Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London) (died...
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  • pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1828) 25 August – Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London) (born...
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    Metropolitan Board of Works. Its first superintendent was Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw. In 1904, the MFB changed its name to the London Fire Brigade. Outside...
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    at the great Tooley Street fire in 1861, and the arrival of Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, a new fire brigade for London was required. It was created in 1866...
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    parliamentary inquiry was carried out by Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, the Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Shaw's report was also critical of Phipps and...
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  • London borough lived here" 149 Lower Road Rotherhithe SE16 2XL 2023 Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1830–1908) "First Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade lived...
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  • member and United States Representative from New York (died 1897). Eyre Massey Shaw, Superintendent of the (London) Metropolitan Fire Brigade (died 1908)...
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  • where he lived. His knowledge of firefighting came from his friend Eyre Massey Shaw, first chief of the London Fire Brigade. In 1893, his comedy Our Play...
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  • play, the Royal Shakespeare Company produced the show with director Ronald Eyre. The first performance was on June 23, 1970, and featured Donald Sinden as...
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  • Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europaea Doreen Massey, Professor of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University and...
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    Papillon (1973) 3 Charlton Heston Studio One (1947–1958, episodes "Jane Eyre", "Macbeth" and "The Wings of a Dove"), Playhouse 90 (1956–1960, episode...
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    Griffiths from a translation by Helen Rappaport and directed by Richard Eyre. Instead of her 1962 BBC role as daughter Anya, Judi Dench here played the...
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