Reginald Eyre

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Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre (* 28. May 1924 , † 27. January 2019 ) was a British solicitor and politician of the Conservative Party , which from 1965 to 1987 deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) was.

Life

Reginald Edwin Eyre graduated after attending King Edward's Camp Hill School in Birmingham studying law at Emmanuel College of Cambridge University . After his legal admission, he worked as a solicitor at the law firm Eyre & Co. in Birmingham . In the election on October 8, 1959 , he ran for the Conservative Party in the Birmingham Northfield constituency for a seat in the House of Commons, with 28,647 votes (49.2 percent) only narrowly defeated the long-time constituency holder of the Labor Party , Donald Chapman , to the 29,587 votes (50.8 percent) accounted for. In a by-election (By-Election) in the constituency Birmingham Hall Green , he was on May 6, 1965 to the conservative Tories with 17,130 votes (54.8 percent) for the first time as a deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) elected and thus to succeed his party colleague Aubrey Jones , who had represented this constituency since 1950 and now assumed the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead . He was re-elected with an absolute majority in the following general election and represented the constituency of Birmingham Hall Green until June 7, 1987.

After the Conservative Party won the election on June 18, 1970 , Eyre assumed office in the Heath Cabinet between June 24, 1970 and September 23, 1970 for the first time, as one of the Commissioners of the Treasury ( Lord Commissioner of the Treasury ) . He then served in the Heath cabinet as the successor to William Elliott between September 24, 1970 and his replacement by Bernard Weatherill on April 7, 1972 as Comptroller of the Household . Most recently, he held the office of Under-Secretary of State in the Department of the Environment in the Heath cabinet from April 7, 1972 to March 4, 1974 . On February 14, 1984 he was beaten for his services to the Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43648, HMSO, London, May 11, 1965, p. 4573 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45144, HMSO, London, July 7, 1970, p. 7483 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45199, HMSO, London, September 25, 1970, p. 10513 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
  4. ↑ Controller of the Household ( Hansard )
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45643, HMSO, London, April 11, 1972, p. 4295 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 49583, HMSO, London, December 30, 1983, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 49696, HMSO, London, April 2, 1984, p. 4829 ( PDF , accessed January 4, 2019, English).
personal data
SURNAME Eyre, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyre, Reginald Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1924
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2019