Eyre, Edward John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...to try him for murder were forestalled by a committee of admirers, which included John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Kingsley. An English grand jury declined to indict him, and a royal commission exonerated him, while...