In 1866 the Jamaican House of Assembly had been abolished during disturbances on the island following the Morant Bay rebellion.
Semmel, Bernard, The Governor Eyre Controversy, Macgibbon & Kee, 1962.
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George William Gordon, a Jamaican businessman and politician, who had been critical of Governor John Eyre and his policies, was later arrested by Governor John Eyre who believed he had been behind the rebellion.
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An opposing committee, which included such Tories and Tory socialists as Thomas Carlyle, Rev. Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, sprang up in Eyre's defence.
With John Stuart Mill he was a parliamentary spokesman for the Jamaica Committee, formed in response to Edward John Eyre's brutal suppression of riots in Jamaica during the Morant Bay rebellion.
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Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens and Alfred Lord Tennyson, where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee.
Luke O'Connor, Commander in Chief of the Military Forces which put down the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865.
Mayor John Eyre, organized his attack on St. Thomas to crush the Morant Bay Rebellion at Hibbert House.