# Reginald Eyre

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'''Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre''' (28 May 1924 – 27 January 2019) was a British [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) politician.<ref>''[The Daily Telegraph](/source/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](/source/King_Edward_VI_Camp_Hill_School_for_Boys), [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham), and [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_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](/source/A_%26_C_Black), London}}</ref>

==Career in politics==
He contested [Birmingham Northfield](/source/Birmingham_Northfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in 1959.  Eyre was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Birmingham Hall Green](/source/Birmingham_Hall_Green_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) at [a 1965 by-election](/source/1965_Birmingham_Hall_Green_by-election),<ref>''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'', [Times Newspapers Ltd](/source/The_Times), 1983</ref> and represented the seat until he retired in 1987.  During the [Edward Heath](/source/Edward_Heath) and [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher) governments, he served as [Lord Commissioner of the Treasury](/source/Lord_Commissioner_of_the_Treasury), [Comptroller of the Household](/source/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](/source/Hermione_Eyre), is an editor at the London ''[Evening Standard](/source/Evening_Standard)'', and a novelist.  She is married to Conservative MP [Alex Burghart](/source/Alex_Burghart).

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-reginald-eyre | Reginald Eyre }}

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| before = [Aubrey Jones](/source/Aubrey_Jones)
| after = [Andrew Hargreaves](/source/Andrew_Hargreaves_(politician))
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