John Eyre (Archdeacon of Nottingham)

He was the second son of Anthony Eyre, of Grove Hall, Nottinghamshire, and Judith Laetitia Bury.

In 1762 he purchased the manor and estate of Grove in Nottinghamshire, adjacent to his other properties at Rampton, Treswell and Headon.

[1] His elder brother was Anthony Hardolph Eyre, an MP for Nottinghamshire,[2] and his youngest brother was 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.

He was collated to the parish of Norwell Overall in the collegiate church of Southwell in 1809, and was appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham in 1810.

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