Edward John Eyre

Standard Name: Eyre, Edward John

Used Form: Edward J. Eyre

Used Form: Governor Eyre

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politics	Charles Dickens	Throughout his life CD was a vocal proponent of various causes as well as of the arts, and his name is still strongly associated with social and legal reform. He was, however, quite conservative in...

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18 June 1840-7 July 1841

Edward J. Eyre completed a gruelling expedition overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound.

Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.

III: 77

Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A Short History of Australia. Revised Illustrated, Penguin, 1986.

73-4

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

7 October 1865

Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.

Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

264-5

23 March 1866

The Jamaica Government Act was passed in the UK; it was the first of a number of instances in which a constitution was rewritten to incorporate rule from London.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.

690

Wiseman, Herbert Victor. A Short History of the British West Indies. University of London Press, 1950.

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