Edward John Eyre was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand's New Munster province, and Governor of Jamaica. He was at the centre of a protracted controversy over his response to the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion.
- Occupation
- explorer, colonial administrator, traveler
- Position held
- Governor of Jamaica
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 5, 1815
- Died
- November 30, 1901
