Sir Reginald Edwin Eyre is a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician.

Eyre was educated at King Edward's Camp Hill School, Birmingham

Birmingham

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 and Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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. He contested Birmingham Northfield in 1959.

Eyre was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Birmingham Hall Green at a 1965 by-election

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, and represented the seat until he retired in 1987. During the Edward Heath

Edward Heath

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 and Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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 governments, he served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

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, and junior Environment (Housing and Construction), Trade and Transport Minister. He was also a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party.

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