![]() | Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand... 57 KB (7,287 words) - 23:59, 25 March 2024 |
![]() | Edward Jerningham Wakefield (25 June 1820 – 3 March 1879), known as Jerningham Wakefield, was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. As such, he was... 10 KB (800 words) - 04:38, 4 January 2024 |
Shrigley abduction was an 1827 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley. The couple... 8 KB (1,147 words) - 02:12, 26 April 2023 |
Edward Wakefield may refer to: Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), English statesman and colonial theorist Edward Wakefield (died 1602), MP for Kingston... 914 bytes (130 words) - 15:55, 4 September 2023 |
![]() | New Zealand Company (section Wakefield's influence) devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the Southern Hemisphere. Under Wakefield's model, the... 73 KB (10,047 words) - 05:20, 31 March 2024 |
![]() | period from 1829, when the idea was raised by the then-imprisoned Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to 1842, when the South Australia Act 1842 changed the form of... 52 KB (5,807 words) - 14:35, 25 March 2024 |
Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), influential theorist on colonization Edward Wakefield (British... 4 KB (511 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2024 |
Catherine Gurney Wakefield (1793–1873), the mother of Charles Torlesse (1825–1866); Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862); Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843); William... 5 KB (545 words) - 21:35, 31 December 2023 |
Catherine Gurney Wakefield (1793–1873), the mother of Charles Torlesse (1825–1866); Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862); Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858);... 8 KB (1,050 words) - 14:12, 29 April 2024 |
![]() | freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison... 169 KB (15,769 words) - 00:04, 10 May 2024 |
![]() | highly talented staff, most notably including Charles Buller and Edward Gibbon Wakefield. The three of them collaborated to prepare and write the report... 26 KB (3,413 words) - 21:08, 9 May 2024 |
New Zealand Company. In the latter company Edward Ellice is also a Director, as is Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Ellice was also a Governor of the North American... 7 KB (736 words) - 17:30, 20 September 2023 |
![]() | Virginia, Williamstown, and part of Port Wakefield. The division was named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who promoted colonisation as a tool for social... 16 KB (914 words) - 12:07, 27 April 2024 |
Plymouth. He was described by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, son of New Zealand Company founder Edward Gibbon Wakefield, as short, stout and "perfectly... 10 KB (1,242 words) - 19:47, 25 April 2024 |
Biography; Place MSS. Brit. Mus.; Edward Gibbon Wakefield, by Dr. R. Garnett, 1898.] Attribution "Wakefield, Edward (1774-1854)" . Dictionary of National... 5 KB (617 words) - 20:05, 3 April 2022 |
theory-building (note James Oglethorpe's Colony of Georgia in the 1730s and Edward Gibbon Wakefield's New Zealand Company in the 1840s). Colonization may be used as... 38 KB (4,575 words) - 17:27, 21 April 2024 |
![]() | A notable "Gretna" marriage was the second marriage in 1826 of Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the young heiress Ellen Turner, called the Shrigley abduction... 13 KB (1,592 words) - 21:17, 27 April 2024 |
![]() | the later doctrines of "systematic colonization" advocated by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and others for the settlement of Australia and New Zealand.' In... 86 KB (7,428 words) - 01:35, 9 May 2024 |
History of New Zealand, and her edition of the collected works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1968). She collaborated with Auckland University accountancy professor... 13 KB (1,173 words) - 23:27, 19 April 2024 |
varied backgrounds, from philanthropists to merchants, including Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Robert Gouger, Robert Torrens Sr and George Fife Angas. The association... 30 KB (2,343 words) - 05:20, 17 January 2024 |
![]() | the question of the seat of Parliament was first discussed, with Edward Gibbon Wakefield arguing that the seat of government must be shifted to Wellington... 26 KB (3,174 words) - 16:19, 1 May 2024 |
carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the... 11 KB (954 words) - 19:11, 9 March 2024 |