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
Ellen Turner by Henry Wyatt
Trial of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1826 by Dawson Watson
Edward Gibbon Wakefield by Benjamin Holl
New Zealand Company
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The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model that was focused on the systematic colonisation of New Ze
New Zealand Company coat of arms
John George Lambton, the future Lord Durham
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Colonial Secretary Lord Glenelg