Anthony Eyre (Nottinghamshire MP)
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Anthony Eyre JP (baptised 17 September 1634 – November 1671) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671.
Eyre was baptised on 17 September 1634.[1] He was the second, but only surviving, son of Sir Gervase Eyre of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire, and his wife Elizabeth Babington, daughter of John Babington of Rampton, Nottinghamshire. His father was killed in 1645 defending Newark Castle for the King in the English Civil War. After his father's death, his mother married William More D.D.[2]
His father was the eldest son of the former Anne Markham and Anthony Eyre, of Laughton-en-le-Morthen and Kiveton, Yorkshire, and Newbold, Derbyshire.[2]
He was educated at Inner Temple in 1654,[3] and was awarded a M.A. from Oxford University in 1663.[1]
Career
In 1660, Eyre was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire at the 1661 general election to the Cavalier Parliament. He held the seat until his death in 1671.[3]