Personal details
Full Name:
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Lifetime:
- 20 Mar 1796–16 May 1862
Biography
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
A clever theorist of mercurial character, Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) masterminded the large-scale British settlement of New Zealand.
Read more...Events In History
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19 August 1853Wakefield elected to ParliamentThe originator of the New Zealand Company was elected to the House of Representatives as the member for Hutt, six months after arriving in the colony. He had been quick to lobby for the introduction of responsible government. Read more...
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22 January 1840First European settlers arrive in WellingtonThe New Zealand Company's first settler ship, the Aurora, arrived at Petone, founding the settlement that would become Wellington Read more...
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Main image: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1823
Etching of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
