Giles Eyre (c. 1692–1750) was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1715 to 1734. Eyre was baptised on 27 May 1692, the eldest son of Giles Eyre of Brickworth and his wife Mabel Thayne, daughter of Alexander Thayne of Cowsfield, in Whiteparish, Wiltshire. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 16 June 1715. Eyre succeeded his uncle, John Eyre, as

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for Downton at a by-election on 2 December 1715. He was returned again in

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and

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. His only recorded votes were for the Septennial Bill in 1716 and the Peerage Bill in 1719. He succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1734 and did not stand at the

1734 general election Events January– March * January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America. * February 16 – T ...

. Over subsequent years his political interest declined as he possessed fewer burgages at Downton. Eyre died unmarried on 7 June 1750.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eyre, Giles 1690s births 1750 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734