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


Early life

Anthony was the eldest son of Judith Letitia Bury (1731–1800) and Anthony Eyre (1727–1788) of
Grove Hall Grove Hall was an extended Tudor period, Tudor country house located between Retford and Grove, Nottinghamshire, Grove in Nottinghamshire, England, and was part of an extensive estate. History The barony of Grove, with the manor of West Retford, ...
, who served as MP for
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. 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,
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and Headon. His younger siblings included John Eyre, the
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,
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Sir George Eyre, an officer of the
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who saw service during the
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, and the French Revolutionary and
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, and Julia Eyre, the first wife of
Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull Robert Auriol Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull (18 March 1751 – 19 April 1804) was a Scottish peer and Lord Lyon King of Arms. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland and Baron ...
. He was educated at
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.


Career

Eyre was commissioned as an
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in the
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in 1776, quickly rising to
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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
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in 1790. In 1794, he served as was Lieutenant-Colonel
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of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry in 1794, and Captain Commandant of the
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Volunteers in 1803. Also in 1803, he was elected as Member of Parliament for
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, serving alongside his future son-in-law, Charles Pierrepont (''styled''
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from 1806 when his father was created
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, a title he inherited in 1816). After retiring from Parliament in 1812, he devoted himself to county affairs, serving as a Justice of the Peace for many years.


Personal life

In 1783, Eyre married Francisca Alicia Bootle (d. 1810), third daughter of
Richard Wilbraham-Bootle Richard Wilbraham-Bootle (20 September 1725 – 13 March 1796) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 29 years from 1761 to 1790. Early life He was born Richard Wilbraham on 20 September 1725, the eldest so ...
and Mary Bootle (daughter and heiress of
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of
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, Lancashire).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,
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:
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, 2000), volume I, page 119.
Together, they were the parents of: * Gervase Anthony Eyre (1791–1811), who served with the
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and was killed at the
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during the
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. * Mary Laetitia Eyre (1784–1860) who married
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in 1804. * Frances Julia Eyre (d. 1844), who married Granville Harcourt Vernon, a son of
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,
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, and Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford), in 1814. * Henrietta Eyre (b. ), who married her first cousin, John Hardolph Eyre, son of John Eyre and Charlotte Armytage (a daughter of
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). After his death in 1817, she married amateur poet
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, MP for Aldborough, Malton, and North Nottinghamshire. 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.


Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of
Charles Evelyn Pierrepont, Viscount Newark Charles Evelyn Pierrepont, Viscount Newark MP (2 September 1805 – 23 August 1850) was a Member of Parliament for East Retford, and poet. Family He was born on 2 September 1805 at Holme Pierrepont Hall, the son of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl ...
(MP for
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);
Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers Sydney William Herbert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (12 March 1826 – 16 January 1900) was a British hereditary peer and politician. Early life and education Born at Holme Pierrepont in 1826, Pierrepont was the second but only surviving son o ...
; Lady Mary Frances Pierrepont (wife of married
Edward Christopher Egerton Edward Christopher Egerton (27 July 1816 – 27 August 1869) was a British Conservative politician from the Egerton family. Background Egerton was the son of Wilbraham Egerton and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet. W ...
); and Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont (wife of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn). Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Granville Harcourt-Vernon, MP for Newark.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eyre, Athony Hardolph 1757 births 1836 deaths People educated at Harrow School Eyre, Anthony Hardolph Eyre, Anthony Hardolph Eyre, Anthony Hardolph Eyre, Anthony Hardolph