Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

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Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre (14 October 1913 – 3 February 1978) was a British Conservative Party politician.

The elder son of Major John Symons Crosthwaite (later Crosthwaite-Eyre) of Glaschville, Knoydart, Inverness-shire by his wife Dorothy Muriel, the daughter and heiress of George Edward Briscoe Eyre, of Warrens, Wiltshire, he was granted his maternal grandfather's estate by his mother in 1947. Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he attained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Marines in 1945, following which he embarked upon a political career. At the 1945 general election was elected as Member of Parliament for the New Forest and Christchurch constituency, and was re-elected in 1950 for the new New Forest constituency. He held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons in 1968.

He married, in 1939, Baroness Maria Alexandra, the daughter of Baron Heinrich von Puthon, of Schloss Mirabel, Salzburg, and had two sons and two daughters.

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Digby Mills	Member of Parliament for New Forest & Christchurch 1945 – 1950	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for New Forest 1950 – 1968	Succeeded by Patrick McNair-Wilson

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Name	Crosthwaite-Eyre, Oliver
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Short description	British politician
Date of birth	14 October 1913
Place of birth
Date of death	3 February 1978
Place of death

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