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class="infobox-data"><i>None, position established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>None, position abolished</i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1815-08-05</span>)</span>5 August 1815<br /><a href="/wiki/Whipsnade" title="Whipsnade">Whipsnade</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 November 1901<span style="display:none">(1901-11-30)</span> (aged 86)<br />Devon, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Explorer of Australia, Colonial Administrator, Grazier</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edward John Eyre</b> (5 August 1815 – 30 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand's <a href="/wiki/New_Munster_Province" title="New Munster Province">New Munster</a> province, and Governor of <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eyre was born in <a href="/wiki/Whipsnade" title="Whipsnade">Whipsnade</a>, Bedfordshire, shortly before his family moved to <a href="/wiki/Hornsea" title="Hornsea">Hornsea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, where he was christened.<sup id="cite_ref-greatsafaris_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greatsafaris-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents were Rev. Anthony William Eyre and Sarah (née Mapleton).<sup id="cite_ref-dictbiog_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictbiog-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After completing grammar school at <a href="/wiki/Louth,_Lincolnshire" title="Louth, Lincolnshire">Louth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sedbergh_School" title="Sedbergh School">Sedbergh</a>, he moved to the colonial settlement of <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, Australia, rather than join the army or go to university. He gained experience in the new land by boarding with and forming friendships with prominent gentlemen and became a flock owner when he bought 400 lambs a month before his 18th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_South_Australia">In South Australia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In South Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Eyre%27s_1839_expeditions" title="Eyre's 1839 expeditions">Eyre's 1839 expeditions</a></div> <p>In December 1837, Eyre started <a href="/wiki/Drover_(Australian)" title="Drover (Australian)">droving</a> 1,000 sheep and 600 cattle overland from <a href="/wiki/Monaro,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Monaro, New South Wales">Monaro, New South Wales</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Adelaide" title="Adelaide">Adelaide</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>. Eyre, with his livestock and eight <a href="/wiki/Stockman_(Australia)" title="Stockman (Australia)">stockmen</a>, arrived in Adelaide in July 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Adelaide, Eyre sold the livestock for a large profit. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eyre-map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Eyre-map.jpg/300px-Eyre-map.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Eyre-map.jpg/450px-Eyre-map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Eyre-map.jpg/600px-Eyre-map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="637" data-file-height="293" /></a><figcaption>Expeditions of Eyre</figcaption></figure> <p>With the money from the sale, Eyre set out to explore the interior of South Australia. In 1839, Eyre went on <a href="/wiki/Eyre%27s_1839_expeditions" title="Eyre's 1839 expeditions">two separate expeditions</a>: north to the <a href="/wiki/Flinders_Ranges" title="Flinders Ranges">Flinders Ranges</a> and west to beyond <a href="/wiki/Ceduna,_South_Australia" title="Ceduna, South Australia">Ceduna</a>. The northernmost point of the first expedition was <a href="/wiki/Mount_Eyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Eyre">Mount Eyre</a>; it was named by <a href="/wiki/George_Grey" title="George Grey">Governor Gawler</a> on 11 July 1839.<sup id="cite_ref-Manning-E_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manning-E-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the second expedition, he spotted what was later named <a href="/wiki/Lake_Torrens" title="Lake Torrens">Lake Torrens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-painter_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-painter-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1840, Eyre went on a third expedition, reaching a lake that was later named <a href="/wiki/Lake_Eyre" title="Lake Eyre">Lake Eyre</a>, in his honour.<sup id="cite_ref-painter_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-painter-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overland_to_Albany">Overland to Albany</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Overland to Albany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eyre, together with his aboriginal companion <a href="/wiki/Wylie_(Australian_explorer)" title="Wylie (Australian explorer)">Wylie</a>, was the first European to traverse the coastline of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Australian_Bight" title="Great Australian Bight">Great Australian Bight</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nullarbor_Plain" title="Nullarbor Plain">Nullarbor Plain</a> by land in 1840–1841, on an almost 3,200-kilometre (2,000 mi) trip to <a href="/wiki/Albany,_Western_Australia" title="Albany, Western Australia">Albany, Western Australia</a>. He had originally led the expedition with <a href="/wiki/John_Baxter_(explorer)" title="John Baxter (explorer)">John Baxter</a> and three aboriginal people. </p><p>On 29 April 1841, two of the aboriginal people killed Baxter and left with most of the supplies. Eyre and Wylie survived only because they chanced to encounter at a bay near <a href="/wiki/Esperance,_Western_Australia" title="Esperance, Western Australia">Esperance, Western Australia</a>, the French whaling ship <i>Mississippi</i>, under the command of an Englishman, Captain Thomas Rossiter, for whom Eyre named the location <a href="/wiki/Rossiter_Bay" title="Rossiter Bay">Rossiter Bay</a>. In 1845, he returned to England on board the <i>Symmetry</i>, leaving <a href="/wiki/Port_Adelaide" title="Port Adelaide">Port Adelaide</a> on 16 December 1844,<sup id="cite_ref-Symmetry_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Symmetry-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sailing via <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, under Captain Elder.<sup id="cite_ref-Symmetry_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Symmetry-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon reaching England, the <i>Symmetry</i> called first at <a href="/wiki/Deal,_Kent" title="Deal, Kent">Deal</a>, Kent on 11 May 1845, before anchoring at London on 12 May.<sup id="cite_ref-Henderson_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Henderson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He brought with him two aboriginal boys, one of whom was <a href="/wiki/Warrulan" title="Warrulan">Warrulan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Symmetry_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Symmetry-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Braithwaite_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Braithwaite-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Once in England, he published a narrative of his travels.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonial_Governor_in_New_Zealand">Colonial Governor in New Zealand</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Colonial Governor in New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1848 to 1853, he served as Lieutenant-Governor of <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>'s <a href="/wiki/New_Munster_Province" title="New Munster Province">New Munster Province</a> (Wellington and the South Island) under <a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Grey" class="mw-redirect" title="George Edward Grey">Sir George Grey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married Adelaide Ormond in 1850. She was the sister of the politician <a href="/wiki/John_Davies_Ormond" title="John Davies Ormond">John Davies Ormond</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colonial_Governor_in_Jamaica">Colonial Governor in Jamaica</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Colonial Governor in Jamaica"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1854 Eyre was Governor of several <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> island colonies, including <a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antigua" title="Antigua">Antigua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Governor of Jamaica, Eyre mixed only with the white ruling class, to whose interests he was sympathetic. Instead of trying to relieve the unemployment problems or the unfair tax burdens on the poorer classes, he busied himself with the passing of bills to provide punishment on the treadmill for certain offences, and flogging as the penalty for stealing food. <a href="/wiki/George_William_Gordon" title="George William Gordon">George William Gordon</a>, a mixed-race member of the Assembly of Jamaica, criticised Eyre's draconian measures, warning that "If we are to be governed by such a Governor much longer, the people will have to fly to arms and become self-governing."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Baptist preacher and rebel leader <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bogle" title="Paul Bogle">Paul Bogle</a> encouraged and led a rebellion, and occasioned the death of 18 militia or officials. Fearful of an island-wide uprising, Eyre brutally suppressed the <a href="/wiki/Morant_Bay_rebellion" title="Morant Bay rebellion">Morant Bay rebellion</a> of 1865. Up to 439 black peasants were killed in the reprisals, some 600 flogged, and about 1000 houses burnt down. General <a href="/wiki/Luke_Smythe_O%27Connor" title="Luke Smythe O'Connor">Luke Smythe O'Connor</a> was directly responsible for those who inflicted excessive punishment.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Erroneously convinced that he was one of the leaders of the rebellion, Eyre authorised the execution of Gordon, who was tried for high treason by Lieutenant Herbert Brand in a court-martial. On 23 October, Gordon was hanged two days after his hastily-arranged trial, and Bogle followed him on to the gallows two days later, when he was hanged along with 14 others.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The controlling European element of the Jamaican population, those who had the most to lose, regarded Eyre as the hero who had saved Jamaica from disaster.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eyre's influence on the white planters was so strong that he convinced the House of Assembly to pass constitutional reforms that brought the old form of government to an end and allowed Jamaica to become a <a href="/wiki/Crown_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Colony">Crown Colony</a>, with an appointed, rather than an elected, legislature on the basis that stronger legislative control would ward off another act of rebellion. That move ended the growing influence of the elected <a href="/wiki/Free_people_of_colour" class="mw-redirect" title="Free people of colour">free people of colour</a> Eyre distrusted, such as Gordon, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Jordon" title="Edward Jordon">Edward Jordon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Osborn_(Jamaica)" title="Robert Osborn (Jamaica)">Robert Osborn</a>. Before dissolving itself, the legislature passed legislation to deal with the recent emergency, including an Act that sanctioned martial law and, all importantly for the litigation in <i>Phillips v Eyre</i>, an Act of Indemnity covering all acts done in good faith to suppress the rebellion after the proclamation of martial law.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Those events created great controversy in England and resulted in demands for Eyre to be arrested and tried for murdering Gordon. <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a> organised the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Committee" title="Jamaica Committee">Jamaica Committee</a>, which demanded his prosecution and included some well-known <a href="/wiki/English_liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="English liberal">English liberal</a> intellectuals such as <a href="/wiki/John_Bright" title="John Bright">John Bright</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Harrison" title="Frederic Harrison">Frederic Harrison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hughes" title="Thomas Hughes">Thomas Hughes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley" title="Thomas Henry Huxley">Thomas Henry Huxley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Spencer" title="Herbert Spencer">Herbert Spencer</a> and <a href="/wiki/A._V._Dicey" title="A. V. Dicey">A. V. Dicey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other notable members of the committee included <a href="/wiki/Charles_Buxton" title="Charles Buxton">Charles Buxton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edmond_Beales" title="Edmond Beales">Edmond Beales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stephen" title="Leslie Stephen">Leslie Stephen</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Fitzjames_Stephen" title="James Fitzjames Stephen">James Fitzjames Stephen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Frankland" title="Edward Frankland">Edward Frankland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hill_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Hill Green">Thomas Hill Green</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Chesson" title="Frederick Chesson">Frederick Chesson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goldwin_Smith" title="Goldwin Smith">Goldwin Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyell" title="Charles Lyell">Charles Lyell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fawcett" title="Henry Fawcett">Henry Fawcett</a>. </p><p>The Governor Eyre Defence and Aid Committee was set up by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in September 1866 to argue that Eyre had acted decisively to restore order. The committee secretary was <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Hume" title="Hamilton Hume">Hamilton Hume</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a> with whom Eyre had explored in <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>. His supporters included <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Brudenell,_7th_Earl_of_Cardigan" class="mw-redirect" title="James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan">Lord Cardigan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Tyndall" title="John Tyndall">John Tyndall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cases against Lieutenant Brand and Brigadier <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nelson_(British_Army_officer)" title="Alexander Nelson (British Army officer)">Alexander Nelson</a> were presented to the Central Criminal Court but the <a href="/wiki/Grand_jury" title="Grand jury">grand jury</a> declined to certify either case. Eyre resided in <a href="/wiki/Market_Drayton" title="Market Drayton">Market Drayton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a>, which was outside the jurisdiction of the court, so the indictment failed on that count. Barrister <a href="/wiki/James_Fitzjames_Stephen" title="James Fitzjames Stephen">James Fitzjames Stephen</a> travelled to Market Drayton but failed to convince the Justices to endorse his case against Eyre. The Jamaica Committee next asked the Attorney-General to certify the criminal information against Eyre but was rebuffed. Eyre then moved to London so that he might bring matters to a head and offer himself up to justice. The magistrate at <a href="/wiki/Bow_Street_Police_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Bow Street Police Court">Bow Street Police Court</a> declined to arrest him, due to the failure of the cases against the soldiers, whereupon the imagined prosecutors applied to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_(England)" title="Court of King's Bench (England)">Queen's Bench</a> for a writ of <a href="/wiki/Mandamus" title="Mandamus">mandamus</a> justified by the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Jurisdiction_Act_1802" title="Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1802">Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1802</a> and succeeded. The Queen's Bench grand jury, upon presentation of the case against Eyre, declined to find a true bill of indictment, and Eyre was freed of criminal pursuit.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The case went next to the civil courts. Alexander Phillips charged Eyre with six counts of assault and false imprisonment, in addition to conversion of Phillips's "goods and chattels",<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the case was eventually brought to the UK Court of Exchequer as <a href="/wiki/Phillips_v_Eyre" title="Phillips v Eyre">Phillips v Eyre</a> (1870) LR 6 QB 1, Exchequer Chamber. The case was influential in setting a precedent in English and Australian law over the conflict of laws, and choice of law to be applied in international torts cases.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eyre was exonerated in the Queen's Bench, a <a href="/wiki/Writ_of_error" class="mw-redirect" title="Writ of error">writ of error</a> was submitted to the Exchequer, whose judgment affirmed the one below, and an important precedent was thus set by <a href="/wiki/James_Shaw_Willes" title="James Shaw Willes">Willes J</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hand_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hand-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg/220px-Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg/330px-Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg/440px-Edward_John_Eyre_2.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="656" data-file-height="861" /></a><figcaption>Eyre <i>circa</i> 1890</figcaption></figure> <p>Eyre's legal expenses were covered by the British government in 1872, and in 1874 he was granted the pension of a retired colonial governor. He lived out the remainder of his life at Walreddon Manor in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Whitchurch,_Devon" title="Whitchurch, Devon">Whitchurch</a> near <a href="/wiki/Tavistock,_Devon" class="mw-redirect" title="Tavistock, Devon">Tavistock, Devon</a>, where he died on 30 November 1901. He is buried in the Whitchurch churchyard.<sup id="cite_ref-dictbiog_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictbiog-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition_and_legacy">Recognition and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Recognition and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A statue of Eyre is in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Square,_Adelaide" title="Victoria Square, Adelaide">Victoria Square</a> in Adelaide as well as Rumbalara Reserve in Springfield NSW on the Mouat Walk. In 1970, an <a href="/wiki/Australia_Post" title="Australia Post">Australia Post</a> (then <a href="/wiki/Postmaster-General%27s_Department" title="Postmaster-General's Department">Postmaster-General's Department</a>) postage stamp bore his portrait.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>South Australia's <a href="/wiki/Lake_Eyre" title="Lake Eyre">Lake Eyre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Peninsula" title="Eyre Peninsula">Eyre Peninsula</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Creek_(South_Australia)" title="Eyre Creek (South Australia)">Eyre Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Highway" title="Eyre Highway">Eyre Highway</a> (the main highway from South Australia to Western Australia), <a href="/wiki/Edward_John_Eyre_High_School" title="Edward John Eyre High School">Edward John Eyre High School</a>, the Eyre Hotel in <a href="/wiki/Whyalla" title="Whyalla">Whyalla</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Eyre" title="Electoral district of Eyre">electoral district of Eyre</a> in Western Australia, are named in his honour. So too are the villages of <a href="/wiki/Eyreton" title="Eyreton">Eyreton</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Eyreton" title="West Eyreton">West Eyreton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eyrewell_Forest" title="Eyrewell Forest">Eyrewell Forest</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Canterbury,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury, New Zealand">Canterbury</a> and the Eyre Mountains and <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Creek_(New_Zealand)" title="Eyre Creek (New Zealand)">Eyre Creek</a> in <a href="/wiki/Southland,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Southland, New Zealand">Southland</a>, New Zealand. </p><p>Eyre Road, Linton, Palmerston North also is thought to be named after him as well as a few streets in Canterbury, New Zealand. Closer to the <a href="/wiki/Monaro,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Monaro, New South Wales">Monaro, New South Wales</a>, Eyre Street, in <a href="/wiki/Kingston,_Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Kingston, Australian Capital Territory">Kingston, Australian Capital Territory</a>, and Eyre Street in <a href="/wiki/Bungendore" title="Bungendore">Bungendore</a>, New South Wales, are named for him. </p><p>Eyre's 1840 expedition was dramatised in the 1962 Australian radio play <i><a href="/wiki/Edward_John_Eyre_(radio_play)" title="Edward John Eyre (radio play)">Edward John Eyre</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colin_Thiele" title="Colin Thiele">Colin Thiele</a>. </p><p>In 1971, the Australian composer <a href="/wiki/Barry_Conyngham" title="Barry Conyngham">Barry Conyngham</a> wrote the opera <i>Edward John Eyre</i> using poems by <a href="/wiki/Meredith_Oakes" title="Meredith Oakes">Meredith Oakes</a> and extracts from Eyre's <i>Journals of Expeditions of Discovery</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFEdward_John_Eyre1843" class="citation journal cs1">"<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society_of_London/Volume_13/Expeditions_of_Discovery_in_South_Australia" class="extiw" title="s:Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London/Volume 13/Expeditions of Discovery in South Australia">Expeditions of Discovery in South Australia</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London">Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London</a></i>. <b>13</b>: 161–182. 1843. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0266-6235">0266-6235</a>. <a href="/wiki/WDQ_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="WDQ (identifier)">Wikidata</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108704393" class="extiw" title="d:Q108704393">Q108704393</a>.</cite><span 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Black, <i>A History of Jamaica</i> (London: Collins, 1975), p. 191.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hand-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hand_14-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPeter_Handford2008" class="citation journal cs1">Peter Handford (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2008/26.html">"Edward John Eyre and the Conflict of Laws"</a>. <i>Melbourne University Law Review</i>. <b>32</b> (3): 822–860.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Melbourne+University+Law+Review&rft.atitle=Edward+John+Eyre+and+the+Conflict+of+Laws&rft.volume=32&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=822-860&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Peter+Handford&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austlii.edu.au%2Fau%2Fjournals%2FMelbULawRw%2F2008%2F26.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+John+Eyre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gad Heuman, <i>The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica</i> (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomas1974" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Serrell_Thomas" title="Donald Serrell Thomas">Thomas, Donald</a> (1974), <i>Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! : a life of Cardigan of Balaclava</i>, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 318–320, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7100-7914-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7100-7914-1"><bdi>0-7100-7914-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Charge%21+Hurrah%21+Hurrah%21+%3A+a+life+of+Cardigan+of+Balaclava&rft.place=London&rft.pages=318-320&rft.pub=Routledge+and+Kegan+Paul&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=0-7100-7914-1&rft.aulast=Thomas&rft.aufirst=Donald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+John+Eyre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Geoffrey Dutton (1982) <i>In search of Edward John Eyre</i> South Melbourne: Macmillan. pp. 115–42. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-333-33841-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-333-33841-3">0-333-33841-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0009710.jpg">Australian postage stamp honouring Edward John Eyre</a>. australianstamp.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRadic2002" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Radic, Thérèse (2002) [1 December 1992]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005834">"Edward John Eyre"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Grove_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians#Grove_Music_Online_and_Oxford_Music_Online" title="The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians">Grove Music Online</a></i> (8th ed.). <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-56159-263-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-56159-263-0"><bdi>978-1-56159-263-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Edward+John+Eyre&rft.btitle=Grove+Music+Online&rft.edition=8th&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-56159-263-0&rft.aulast=Radic&rft.aufirst=Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1093%2Fgmo%2F9781561592630.article.O005834&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+John+Eyre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogE.html#eyre1">Eyre, Edward John (1815–1901)</a>", <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Australian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Australian Biography">Dictionary of Australian Biography</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Angus_and_Robertson" class="mw-redirect" title="Angus and Robertson">Angus and Robertson</a>, 1949).</li> <li>"Papers Relative to the Affairs of South Australia—Aborigines", <i>Accounts and Papers 1843</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d3VbAAAAQAAJ">Volume 3</a> (London: <a href="/wiki/William_Clowes_Ltd." title="William Clowes Ltd.">William Clowes and Sons</a>), pp. 267–310.</li> <li>Geoffrey Dutton (1967), <i>The Hero as Murderer: the life of Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815–1901</i>. Sydney: Collins ; Melbourne: Cheshire, (paperback reprint: Penguin, 1977).</li> <li>Julie Evans (2002), "Re-reading Edward Eyre—Race, resistance and repression in Australia and The Caribbean", <i>Australian Historical Studies</i>, 33: 175–198; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F10314610208596190">10.1080/10314610208596190</a>.</li> <li>Catherine Hall (2002), <i>Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropoloe in the English Imagination, 1830–1867</i>. Chicago: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Press" title="University of Chicago Press">University of Chicago Press</a>.</li> <li>Ivan Rudolph (2013), <i>Eyre, the forgotten explorer</i>. Sydney: <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>.</li> <li><i>Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-41, sent by the Colonists of Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government; including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines, and the state of their relations with Europeans</i>. By E. J. Eyre, Resident Magistrate, Murray River. 2 volumes. London (1845). Available at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/journalsofexpedi01eyre/page/n9">Volume I</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/journalsofexpedi02eyre/page/n5">Volume II</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_John_Eyre&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output 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