John Eyre (not to be confused with the explorer
Edward John Eyre) was born in Coventry and transported for housebreaking in 1801.
Eyre's Expedition Across the Nullarbor provides a good picture of the difficulties and hardships in the journey of
Edward John Eyre and his Aboriginal servant Wylie from Fowler's Bay to Albany in 1840.
Edward John Eyre forays into the interior, northward, to where Sturt before him, and others since, suspect an inland sea.
(21) Its suppression involved the proclamation of martial law by then Governor of Jamaica,
Edward John Eyre, and the "killing and torturing [of] hundreds of black Jamaicans--that is to say, British subjects." (22) The prolonged conflict that arose in England centred on the propriety and legality of the killing and torture.
Edward John Eyre, the first man to cross this desolate plain in 1840 and 1841 from east to west, had taken five months in a trek which saw the deaths of three of his party and left Eyre and his native tracker Wylie cresting a similar rise at the other side to see the little settlement of Albany, where they had long been given up for dead.
[In 1865 Edward John Eyre, the Governor of Jamaica, in the course of suppressing a revolt, caused a leading activist to be tried and executed under martial law Over the next three years, a group of leading politicians and thinkers in England attempted to have Eyre prosecuted for murder.
CONTENTS I Introduction II Background: The Prosecution (or Persecution) of Edward John Eyre A Eyre's Early Career in Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies B Eyre as Governor of Jamaica and the Rebellion at Morant Bay C The 'Jamaica Question' D The Criminal Proceedings III The Civil Proceedings: Phillips v Eyre IV Phillips v Eyre and the Conflict of Laws A Choice of Law in Tort Prior to Phillips v Eyre B The Impact of Phillips v Eyre: A New Rule for Choice of Law in Tort?
Through the Colonial Office, she turned a deaf ear to their pleas, as did the Jamaica Assembly and the Governor, Edward John Eyre.
My summary here is based on Geoffrey Dutton, The Hero as Murderer: The Life of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815-1901 (London & Glasgow: Collins, 1967), 263-304; Hurwitz, 148; Semmel, 15-53; and Workman, 77-79.
In 1840
Edward John Eyre struggled through parched land and discovered Lake Eyre South--normally an arid, retina-burning salt playa--unaware that he was heading towards the driest portion of the world's driest inhabited continent.
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Edward John Eyre, whom Short honours as being highly sympathetic to the natives; Ludwig Leichhardt, botanizing while nearly starving in Queensland, were it not for Aborigine-provided sustenance (he would have no such luck on a later excursion); and John McDouall Stuart, who in 1862 on his third try became the first white man to cross Australia from south to north, all the while 'trading fishhooks for information' (p.