Gervase Eyre

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

He was the son of Anthony Eyre of Rampton, Nottinghamshire and his second wife Elizabeth, educated at Christ Church, Oxford and trained in the law at the Inner Temple (1686). He succeeded his father in 1671 at the age of two.

He was appointed as a deputy-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1692 and as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1696–97. He was elected a knight of the shire (MP) for Nottinghamshire in 1698 and was re-elected in 1702.

He died in London in 1704 and was buried in the chancel of All Saints’ church, Rampton. He had married Catherine, 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.^[1]

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