Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Eyre, (Sir) Giles
Eyre, (Sir) Giles, Exeter Coll., matric. 9 Dec., 1653 (as arm.), bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1661, serjeant-at-law 1689 (as son and heir of Giles of Whiteparish, Wilts, arm.), recorder of Sarum, and M.P. 1689, until a justice of King's Bench 4 May, 1689, and knighted 31 Nov. following; licenced 18 Nov., 1662, to marry Dorothy, daughter of John Ryves, esq.; died 2 June, 1695, father of the next-named. See Foster's Judges and Barristers & London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, etc.