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Anthony Hardolph Eyre

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Anthony Hardolph Eyre
Member of Parliament for
Nottinghamshire
In office
1803–1812
Serving with Viscount Newark
Preceded byCharles Pierrepont
Lord William Bentinck
Succeeded byViscount Newark
Lord William Bentinck
Personal details
Born(1757-03-05)5 March 1757
Died13 March 1836(1836-03-13) (aged 79)
Spouse
Francisca Alicia Bootle
(m. 1783; died 1810)
RelationsAnthony Eyre (grandfather)
Charles Pierrepont, Viscount Newark (grandson)
Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (grandson)
Granville Harcourt-Vernon (grandson)
Children4
Parent(s)Anthony Eyre
Judith Letitia Bury
EducationHarrow School

Anthony Hardolph Eyre JP (8 March 1757 – 13 April 1836) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons.

Early life

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Portrait of his mother, the former Judith Letitia Bury, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1755

Anthony was the eldest son of Judith Letitia Bury (1731–1800) and Anthony Eyre (1727–1788) of Grove Hall, who served as MP for Boroughbridge. Through his mother, the family acquired the manor and estate at Headon, Nottinghamshire. In 1762 he purchased the manor and estate of Grove in Nottinghamshire, adjacent to his other properties at Rampton, Treswell and Headon.[1] His younger siblings included John Eyre, the Archdeacon of Nottingham, Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir George Eyre, an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,[2][3] and Julia Eyre, the first wife of Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull.[1]

He was educated at Harrow School.[4]

Career

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Eyre was commissioned as an Ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1776, quickly rising to Captain in 1778, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1787. Following the death of his father in 1788, he succeeded to the family estates before retiring from the British Army in 1790.[4]

In 1794, he served as was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry in 1794, and Captain Commandant of the Retford Volunteers in 1803. Also in 1803, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire,[5] serving alongside his future son-in-law, Charles Pierrepont (styled Viscount Newark from 1806 when his father was created Earl Manvers, a title he inherited in 1816).[4]

After retiring from Parliament in 1812, he devoted himself to county affairs, serving as a Justice of the Peace for many years.[4]

Personal life

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In 1783, Eyre married Francisca Alicia Bootle (d. 1810), third daughter of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle and Mary Bootle (daughter and heiress of Robert Bootle of Lathom House, Lancashire).[6] Together, they were the parents of:[4]

As his only son died in 1811, his estates were divided between his younger daughters Frances (whose husband Granville inherited Grove and Headon), and Henrietta (whose husband's brother, Charles Wasteneys Eyre, inherited Rampton) after his death in 1836.[4]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Charles Evelyn Pierrepont, Viscount Newark (MP for East Retford); Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers; Lady Mary Frances Pierrepont (wife of married Edward Christopher Egerton); and Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont (wife of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn).[8]

Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Granville Harcourt-Vernon, MP for Newark.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Biography of Anthony Eyre (1727-1788)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. p. 656.
  3. ^ Ralfe. The Naval Biography of Great Britain. p. 386.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Biography of Anthony Hardolph Eyre (1757-1836)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  5. ^ Port, M. H. "EYRE, Anthony Hardolph (1757-1836), of Grove Park, Notts". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  6. ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 119.
  7. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWroth, Warwick William (1892). "Knight, Henry Gally". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 253–254.
  8. ^ "Biography of Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers (1778–1860)". The University of Nottingham. 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  9. ^ Blain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 84–85. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire
1803–1812
With: Charles Pierrepont
Succeeded by