I am truly grateful for your input. Eyton Hall IS currently beautiful, isn't it? It was older and tired-er when I lived there: AC was not a wealthy man. After his death, a brewery bought up the Hall and brought it up to snuff for weddings and such. Most recently it was owned by a London Judge, whom I met once. Re: the Shropshire archives, the problem is that AC Eyton was not a mainline Eyton. He became 'Lord of the Manor', when he married the widow of a cousin (Thomas Slaney Eyton, once Lord Lieutenant of Shrops, who died in 1899), or more exactly, in 1941, when she died. She, and her first husband, are well documented everywhere, including The Peerage, but poor AC is not.
One thing you might find of interest - discovered in searching further in Eyton - is that when AC died (1954), the Hall passed to a Morris-Eyton
in Rhodesia. So perhaps AC's branch of the family might have been in Rhodesia already, which might account for a 'Gent' being willing to start out as a Cpl in the Rhodesian Police?
In any case, you have helped me immeasurably while making certain there are even more loose ends for me to tease. Thanks, Dave, Pete
