The Jamaica Committee was a group set up in Great Britain in 1865, which called for
Edward Eyre, Governor of
Jamaica, to be tried for his excesses in suppressing the
Morant Bay rebellion of 1865. More radical members of the Committee wanted him tried for the
murder
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of
British subject
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s (Jamaica was at that time a
Crown Colony
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), under the rule of law. The Committee included English liberals, such as
John Bright,
John Stuart Mill
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,
Charles Darwin,
Thomas Henry Huxley,
Thomas Hughes,
Herbert Spencer and
A. V. Dicey
Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922), usually cited as A. V. Dicey, was a British Whiggism, Whig jurist and constitutional law, constitutional theorist. He is most widely known as the author of ''Introduction to the Study o ...
, the last of whom would eventually become known for his scholarship on the
Conflict of Laws.
[Handford, ''EDWARD JOHN EYRE AND THE CONFLICT OF LAWS'']
Other prominent members of the committee included
Charles Buxton,