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EDWARD JOHN EYRE (1815-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD JOHN EYRE (1815-1901)  ,
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British colonial governor, the son of a
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Yorkshire clergyman, was born on the 5th of August 1815 . He was intended for the army, but delays having arisen in producing a commission, he went out to New South Wales, where he engaged in the difficult but very necessary undertaking of transporting stock westward to the new colony of South
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Australia, then in
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great
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distress, and where he became magistrate and
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protector of the
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aborigines, whose interests he warmly advocated . Already experienced as an Australian traveller, he undertook the most extensive and difficult journeys in the
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desert country north and west of Adelaide, and after encountering the greatest hardships, proved the possibility of
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land communication between South and West Australia . In 1845 he returned to England and published the narrative of his travels . In 1846 he was appointed
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lieutenant-governor of New Zealand, where he served under
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Sir George Grey . After successively governing St Vincent and
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Antigua, he was in x862 appointed acting-governor of
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Jamaica and in 1864 governor . In
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October x865 a negro insurrection broke out and was repressed with laudable vigour, but the unquestionable severity and alleged illegality of Eyre's subsequent proceedings raised a storm at borne which induced the government to suspend him and to despatch a
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special commission of investigation, the effect of whose inquiries, declared by his successor, Sir John Peter Grant, to have been " admirably conducted," was that he should not be reinstated in his office . The government, nevertheless, saw nothing in Eyre's conduct to justify legal proceedings; indictments preferred by amateur prosecutors at home against him and military
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officers who had acted under his direction, resulted in failure, and he retired upon the pension of a colonial governor . As an explorer Eyre must be classed in the highest rank, but opinion's are always likely to differ as to his
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action in the Jamaica
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rebellion . He died on the 3oth of November 19ot .

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