Anthony Eyre (Boroughbridge MP)
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Anthony Eyre | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge | |
| In office 1774–1784 | |
| Preceded by | Nathaniel Cholmley Major-General Henry Clinton |
| Succeeded by | Sir Richard Sutton, Bt Henry Temple |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 January 1727 |
| Died | 14 February 1788 (aged 61) |
| Spouse |
Judith Letitia Bury
(m. 1755; died 1788) |
| Relations | Gervase Eyre (grandfather) |
| Parent(s) | Anthony Eyre Margaret Turner |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Anthony Eyre (9 January 1727 – 14 February 1788) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1784.
Eyre was born on 9 January 1727. He was the only surviving son of Anthony Eyre (c. 1691–1748), High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, and his wife, Margaret Turner (d. 1748).[1] Among his siblings were elder brother Gervase (who died unmarried), Margaret Eyre (who married Bache Thornhill), Katherine Eyre (who married Matthew Dodsworth), and Mary Eyre (who married Anthony Cooke).[1]
His father was the eldest surviving son of Gervase Eyre of Rampton near East Retford, and Catherine Cooke (daughter and eventual heiress of Sir Henry Cooke, 2nd Baronet of Wheatley).[1] His maternal grandfather was Charles Turner of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire.[2]
He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 11 December 1745.[3]
Career
Eyre was returned as Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge on the interest of the Duke of Newcastle at the 1774 general election. He was returned unopposed in 1780. In 1783 he voted against Newcastle on a matter of principle and in a letter of apology commented that he did not expect to be brought in at the 1784 general election and did not stand.[4]
Estates
Eyre's father had torn down the old family manor house at Rampton, and moved to the family's other residence at Laughton-en-le-Morthen, South Yorkshire. He also bought an estate at Adwick le Street near Doncaster from his uncle, Sir George Cooke, 3rd Baronet, in 1733, and lived there until his death in 1748 when young Eyre succeeded to his father's estates of Rampton, Laughton-en-le-Morthen, and Adwick le Street.[2]
From his 1755 marriage to Judith, the Eyre family obtained the manor of Headon, and lands around Bilsby in eastern Lincolnshire, which were inherited from the Johnson family. In 1762, Eyre sold the Adwick estate and having acquired Grove Park near East Retford, and other land at Grove, Little Gringley and Ordsall, moved back to Nottinghamshire. He sold the Laughton estate in 1767.[5]
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