British colonisation of South Australia describes the planning and establishment of the colony of South Australia by the British government, covering the period from 1829, when the idea was raised by
"Old Colonists" Festival Dinner on 27 March 1851, in commemoration of the first sale of town land on 27 March 1837. Members of the 1836 government are listed alongside.
1835 advertisement
The Proclamation of South Australia 1836, Charles Hill.
Colonel William Light.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield was an English politician in colonial Canada and New Zealand. He is considered a key figure in the establishment in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s of British colonies in Australia
British colonisation of South Australia
…establishment of the colony of South Australia by the British government, covering the 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 government to a Crown colony. Ideas espoused and promulgated by Wakefield since 1829…
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Lord Durham, Governor General of British North America
Lord Durham's Report
A bust of Wakefield from the 1897 book New Zealand rulers and statesmen from 1840 to 1897