Gervase Eyre

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

Early life Eyre was the son of Anthony Eyre of Rampton, Nottinghamshire and his second wife Elizabeth Pakington, daughter of Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet, of Westwood, Worcestershire. He was 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.

Anthony Eyre (–1748), who married Margaret Turner, daughter of Charles Turner of Kirkleatham. Henry Eyre (b. 1693), who married Elizabeth Hickham. He was succeeded by his son Anthony.

Descendants Through his son Henry, he was a grandfather of Anne Eyre (–1805), who married Clotworthy Skeffington, 1st Earl of Massereene; Captain George Eyre (1695–1761) of the Royal Horse Guards; Gervase Eyre (–1741); and Dr. Charles Eyre (1700–1763), who married Elizabeth Fountaine and was the father of Anthony Fountaine Eyre, Canon of York.