Reginald Eyre

{{Short description|British politician (1924–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre''' (28 May 1924 – 27 January 2019) was a British Conservative Party politician.<ref>''The Daily Telegraph'' Issue No. 50,916 (dated Thursday 31 January 2019) Obituaries p. 25<br> "Sir Reginald Eyre: long serving Tory MP who revived inner cities and was once held up by a gun man"</ref>

==Early life and career== Son of Edwin Eyre, a local government officer, and his wife Mary (née Moseley), a shopkeeper,<ref>{{cite web |title=Eyre, Sir Reginald (Edwin) |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U15339 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |access-date=3 June 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u15339}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Reginald Eyre, long-serving Birmingham Conservative MP who worked hard on reviving the inner cities and once fought off a gun-wielding hitchhiker – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/01/30/sir-reginald-eyre-long-serving-birmingham-conservative-mp-worked |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2021 |date=2019-01-30}}</ref> Eyre was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School, Birmingham, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before becoming a Birmingham solicitor, and admitted in 1950.<ref name=REperWhoswho>{{cite book|title=Eyre, Sir Reginald Edwin|page=661|work=Who's Who 2002|publisher=A & C Black, London}}</ref>

==Career in politics== He contested Birmingham Northfield in 1959. Eyre was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green at a 1965 by-election,<ref>''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Ltd, 1983</ref> and represented the seat until he retired in 1987. During the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments, he served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Household, and junior Environment (Housing and Construction), and Trade and Transport Minister.<ref>{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}</ref> He was also a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party.

Eyre died in January 2019 at the age of 94.<ref>[https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2019-01-28a.556.0 Immigration and Social Security Co-Ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill – Alex Burghart speech]</ref> His daughter, from his second marriage, Hermione Eyre, is an editor at the London ''Evening Standard'', and a novelist. She is married to Conservative MP Alex Burghart.

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