Robert Eyre
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Sir Robert Eyre (1666 – 28 December 1735) was an English lawyer, who served as Solicitor-General and then as a judge, ultimately as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Family
Eyre was the eldest son of Samuel and Martha Eyre of New House, Whiteparish, Wiltshire. He married Elizabeth Rudge in 1686 and they had five children, born between 1687 and 1694.[1][2]
Career
He was elected MP for Salisbury in 1698.
He served as Solicitor-General from 1708 to 1710. In 1710, he was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench. In 1718, he gave an opinion favouring the view of the Prince of Wales, rather than that of the king over the education of the prince's children, and was therefore passed over for promotion to be Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench. However, he was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1723 and then appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1725, a post in which he served until his death.[3]
He served as Member of Parliament for Southampton from 1727 until 1729.[4]
References
- ↑ Eyre History at the Wayback Machine (archived July 23, 2011). eyrehistory.net
- ↑ Thomas Smith, A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bonebone (1833), p. 48.
- ↑ David Lemmings, ‘Eyre, Sir Robert (1666–1735)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 16 July 2008.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
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| Preceded by | Solicitor General for England and Wales 1708–1710 |
Succeeded by Sir Robert Raymond |
| Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1723–1725 |
Succeeded by Sir Jeffrey Gilbert |
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| Preceded by | Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1725–1735 |
Succeeded by Sir Thomas Reeve |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Salisbury 1698–1707 With: Charles Fox 1698–1701, 1701–1707 Sir Thomas Mompesson 1701 |
Succeeded by Parliament of Great Britain |
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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Member of Parliament for Salisbury 1707–1710 With: Charles Fox 1707–1710 |
Succeeded by Charles Fox Robert Pitt |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Southampton 1725–1727 With: Anthony Henley |
Succeeded by Sir William Heathcote Anthony Henley |
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