Family and Education
1st s. of John Eyre of Wedhampton and Chirton by his 1st w. Alice, da. and coh. of Stephen Payne of Motcombe, Dorset, wid. of one Hampton; half-bro. of Robert Eyre I m. (1) by 1553, Anne, da. of Thomas Tropnell of Great Chalfield, and coh. of her bro. Giles 1s. Sir William 6da.; (2) 1579, Elizabeth (d.1606), da. of Richard Dauntesy of Potterne. suc. fa. 1554.Wilts. Vis. Peds. (Harl. Soc. cv, cvi), 59-60; Genealogist, n.s. xii. 27; Hoare, Wilts. Frustfield 56; Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. xxiii. 260-1.
Offices Held
J.p.q. Wilts. by 1559, sheriff 1565 – 66, subsidy commr. for several hundreds; escheator, Wilts. and Hants 1558–9.
Main residences: Wedhampton; Northcombe; Great Chalfield, Wilts.
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Commons 1558-1603
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EYRE, John (-d.1581)
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Oxford 1644
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