Eyre
EDWARD JOHN (ar), an Australian explorer and colonial governor; born in August, 1815. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 17. In 1840 he failed in an attempt to explore the region between South and Western Australia, though he discovered Lake Torrens. He accomplished the task in 1841. In 1846 he became lieutenant-governor of New Zealand, and in 1854 of St. Vincent in the West Indies. In 1864 he was appointed governor of Jamaica, where in 1865 negro disturbances broke out. The outbreak was suppressed with rigid severity. A commission sent to inquire, found that Eyre had acted unjustly in one case and he was recalled. On his return he was prosecuted by a committee of whom John Stuart Mill was the most prominent; Thomas Carlyle, Charles