Gervase Eyre (1669 – 16 February 1704) was an English MP for Nottinghamshire. Eyre was the son of Anthony Eyre of

Rampton, Nottinghamshire Rampton is a village in the civil parish of Rampton and Woodbeck, about east of Retford in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish is long and thin, extending about east–west but only about north–so ...

and his second wife Elizabeth Pakington, daughter of

Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet (13 August 1621 – 1680) of Westwood House, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679. He supported the Royalist cause in the ...

, of Westwood, Worcestershire. He was educated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

and trained in the law at the

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(1686). He succeeded his father in 1671 at the age of two. Eyre was appointed as a deputy-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1692 and as

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for 1696–97. He was elected a

knight of the shire Knight of the shire ( la, milites comitatus) was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistributio ...

(MP) for

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in 1698 and was re-elected in 1702. Eyre died in London in 1704 and was buried in the chancel of All Saints’ church, Rampton. He had married Catherine Cooke, the daughter and eventual heiress of Sir Henry Cooke, 2nd Baronet of Wheatley, and with whom he had 7 sons and 6 daughters. He was succeeded by his son Anthony.

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1669 births 1704 deaths High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1702–1705 People from Bassetlaw District {{18thC-England-MP-stub