 He was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society (1794–5), and he encouraged Edward Hanson in establishing a dissenting academy at Idle, about 1800.A scheme originated in 1796 by Eyre and others to sending out evangelical preachers into the counties south of London, and from this arose Hackney Theological College, opened in 1803.William Jay noted how Eyre, a Calvinist in theology, was asked to preach at John Wesley's chapel in Moorfields, and gave no offence.