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
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
Shrigley abduction
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The Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley. The couple were married in Gretna Green, Scotl
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
…by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants. Despite being found guilty and imprisoned in 1827 for kidnapping a fifteen-year-old girl, he enjoyed a lengthy career in colonial governments and colonial policy. Wakefield was born in London in 1796, the eldest son of Edward Wakefield…
Ellen Turner by Henry Wyatt
Trial of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1826 by Dawson Watson
Edward Gibbon Wakefield by Benjamin Holl