Anthony Eyre

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

Early life

Anthony was the eldest son of Judith Letitia Bury (1731–1800) and Anthony Eyre (1727–1788) of Grove Hall, who served as MP for Boroughbridge. 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, Treswell and Headon. His younger siblings included John Eyre, the Archdeacon of Nottingham, Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir George Eyre, an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and Julia Eyre, the first wife of Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull.

Career Eyre was commissioned as an Ensign in the 1st Foot Guards in 1776, quickly rising to Captain 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 British Army in 1790. serving alongside his future son-in-law, Charles Pierrepont (styled Viscount Newark from 1806 when his father was created Earl Manvers, a title he inherited in 1816). Together, they were the parents of:

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.

Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Granville Harcourt-Vernon, MP for Newark.