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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 (where he later served as a member of parliament).
16 de mar. de 2024 · Edward Gibbon Wakefield (born March 20, 1796, London, Eng.—died May 16, 1862, Wellington, N.Z.) British colonizer of South Australia and New Zealand and inspirer of the Durham Report (1839) on Canadian colonial policy. In 1814 Wakefield became secretary to the British minister at Turin, Italy, and in 1816 he married.
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Colonizador británico. Sumario. 1 Síntesis biográfica. 1.1 Trayectoria profesional. 1.2 Canadá (primera vez) 1.3 Últimos años en Gran Bretaña. 2 Muerte. 3 Fuentes. Síntesis biográfica. Nació en Londres, Gran Bretaña en 1796. Se educó en Londres y Edimburgo.
- 1862Nueva Zelanda
- 1796Londres, Reino Unido
8 de nov. de 2017 · Edward Gibbon Wakefield. A clever theorist of mercurial character, Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) masterminded the large-scale British settlement of New Zealand. (He also played significant roles in the settlement of South Australia and Canada.) Wakefield developed his theories of colonisation while serving a term at Newgate ...
Topics ›. People ›. Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born into a family of English Quaker reformers. Following his elopement with a young heiress who soon died, he was convicted of abducting another and, in 1827, sentenced to three years in London’s Newgate Prison.
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. 1796–1862. Political theorist, colonial promoter, politician. This biography, written by Miles Fairburn, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1990. Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born probably in London, England, on 20 March 1796. His father, Edward Wakefield, was a farmer and land agent ...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), author and colonial promoter, was born on 20 March 1796 in London, the second of nine children of Edward Wakefield and Susanna, née Crash. Like his younger brothers, Daniel, Arthur and William, he later went to New Zealand, but the youngest, Felix, was the only member of the family to go to Australia.
