Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Eyre, (Sir) Samuel

by Joseph Foster

Eyre, (Sir) Samuel, arm. Wadham Coll., matric. 9 Dec., 1653 (as arm.); bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1661, treasurer 1688-9, serjeant-at-law 1692 (son and heir of Robert, of New Sarum, Wilts, arm.); licenced 18 Oct., 1661, to marry Martha, daughter of Francis Lucy, of London, esq.; a judge of King's Bench 1694 (knighted 22 Feb.) until his death, on circuit at Lancaster, 12 Sept., 1698; father of Robert 1683. See Foster's Judges and Barristers; London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; & D.N.B.