Jottings of a Gentleman

Corry Skilbeck

Eyre Evans of Oamaru

Meet Eyre Evans who left Ireland in 1866 bound for Oamaru, New Zealand, on a small sailing ship that survived a hurricane in southern seas.
 
Corry, Eyre's great grandaughter, has edited and collated his diaries and other lively writings to enable Eyre to share his life story a hundred years after it was lived.

Jottings of a Gentleman chronicles a story of adventure, courage, faith and social conscience in the latter haf of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.