Edward John Eyre (5 August 1815 – 30 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, Lieutenant-Governor...
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dries up and the water evaporates. The lake was named in honour of Edward John Eyre, the first European to see it in 1840. It was officially renamed in...
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It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first European to cross the Nullarbor by land, in 1840–1841. Eyre Highway runs from Norseman...
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Edward Bate Scott (3 April 1822 – 2 July 1909) was a pioneering colonist of South Australia who accompanied Edward John Eyre on several journeys and had...
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settler Edward John Eyre at his newly established Hunter River property. Baxter was reputedly married, but his wife died in 1837. At this period Eyre described...
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Edward John Eyre High School is located in Whyalla Norrie, South Australia. It opened in 1968 as Eyre Technical High School. Built during the boom period...
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Jane Eyre (/ɛər/ AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her...
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Edward John Eyre is a 1962 Australian radio play by Colin Thiele about Edward Eyre. It was written especially for the 1962 Adelaide Festival of the Arts...
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voting. In August 1865, Gordon criticised the governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre, for sanctioning "everything done by the higher class to the oppression...
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Gawler Ranges to the north. Earlier called Eyre's Peninsula, it was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored parts of the peninsula in 1839–41...
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Edward Fairfax Rochester (often referred to as Mr Rochester) is a character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. The brooding master of Thornfield...
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in Western Australia. He accompanied Edward John Eyre to Adelaide by sea in May 1840, and would have left with Eyre on his expedition to penetrate to the...
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called for reforms, and was charged with inciting to riot. Governor Edward John Eyre declared martial law in the area, ordering in troops to hunt down the...
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as the "dual-actionability test" (or "double actionability test"). Edward John Eyre had been the governor of Jamaica during the Morant Bay Rebellion. As...
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and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre. After the start of the Morant Bay rebellion in October 1865, Eyre declared martial law in that area, directed...
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Jane Eyre is a musical drama with music and lyrics by composer-lyricist Paul Gordon and a book by John Caird, based on the 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë...
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Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane Eyre Anna Paquin as Young Jane Eyre William Hurt as Edward Fairfax Rochester Fiona Shaw as Mrs Reed John Wood as Mr. Brocklehurst...
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John Eyre may refer to: John Eyre (died 1581), Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and Salisbury John Eyre (died 1639), MP for Cricklade John Eyre (1659–1709)...
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Bell, Sir Francis Dillon Domett, Alfred Eyre, Edward John Fox, Sir William Gisborne, William Ormond, Hon. John Davies Richmond, Mathew, C.B. New Munster...
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Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story follows Jane's infancy and...
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are reunited. Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre Michael Fassbender as Edward Fairfax Rochester Jamie Bell as St. John Rivers Judi Dench as Mrs Fairfax Sally...
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and producer Damian Eyre, Australian police officer murdered in 1988 Damian Eyre (cricketer), British cricketer Edward John Eyre, Australian explorer...
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Randeniya (Mr. Edward Daraniyagala) and Anarkali Akarsha (Suwimali) 1849: Jane Eyre, a drama in five acts by John Brougham 1870: Jane Eyre, or The Orphan...
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The Lake Eyre basin (/ɛər/ AIR) is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia. It is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and...
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football) (born 1963), American football coach John Baxter (explorer) (1799–1841), friend of Edward John Eyre during crossing of Nullarbor Plain, 1840–41...
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national legend. One of the Eyres' palaces was Hope, which, historian Hamilton Hume notes in The Life of Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica, "continued...
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surrounding it. Rt Rev William Elsey, Bishop of Kalgoorlie from 1919–50 Edward John Eyre (5 August 1815 – 30 November 1901), explorer of the Australian continent...
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discovered by Colonial Europeans and named by Edward John Eyre either in 1839 or on 27 June 1840. Eyre is quoted as saying "from the lofty way it towered...
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on the Nullarbor Plain in southern Western Australia. The explorer Edward John Eyre is thought to have visited it on 2 May 1842, but found it empty. Toolinna...
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Eyre is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in 1842 and named for the explorer Edward John...
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