Person
Eyre, Edward John (1815 - 1901)
- Born
- 5 August 1815
Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, England - Died
- 20 November 1901
Tavistock, England - Occupation
- Explorer
Summary
Edward Eyre was an explorer and Magistrate in South Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand 1846-1853, of St. Vincent 1854-1860 and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica in 1864.
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Edward John Eyre - Records, 1832 - 1941; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Edward John Eyre - Records, 1863 - 1880, MS 1067; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
- Edward John Eyre - Records, 1863 - 1903, MS 1195; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- Edward John Eyre - Records, 1771 - 1928, PRG 177; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Dutton, G., The hero as murderer: the life of Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815 - 1901 (Sydney: William Collins, 1967), 416 pp. Details
- Dutton, Geoffrey, In search of Edward John Eyre (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1982), 152 pp. Details
- Eyre, Edward John, Journals of expeditions of discovery into central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 (...) including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, 2 vols (London: T. and W. Boone, 1845). Details
- Rudolph, Ivan, Eyre: the Forgotten Explorer (Sydney South: HarperCollins Publisher, 2014), 404 pp. Details
- Stokes, Edward, The Desert Coast: Edward Eyre's Expedition 1840-41 (Knoxfield: Five Mile Press, 1993), 132 pp. Details
- Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Dutton, Geoffrey, 'Eyre, Edward John (1815-1901)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 1 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), pp. 363-364. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010346b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Mann, Dene, 'Still seeking Edward John Eyre: a re-examination of the role of E.J. Eyre in South Australian history', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 38 (2010), 9-24. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q357792. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/10215308. Details
- 'Eyre, Edward John (1815-1901)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-466260. Details
See also
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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