Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Eyre, (Sir) Robert
Eyre, (Sir) Robert, Lincoln Coll., matric. 11 May, 1683 (as arm.), bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1690, treasurer and Q.C. 1709 (son of Samuel, 1653), recorder of Salisbury 1696, and M.P. in six parliaments, 1698-1710, solicitor-general of England 1708-10, serjeant-at-law 1710, a justice of Court of Queen's Bench 1710, and knighted 6 May, 1710, chancellor to the Prince of Wales, lord chief baron of Court of Exchequer 1723, and lord chief justice of Common Pleas 1725 until his death 28 Dec., 1735; brother of Francis 1690. See Foster's Judges and Barristers; Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary; & D.N.B.