Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Politician
1796 – 1862
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Who was Edward Gibbon Wakefield?
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of South Australia, and later New Zealand.
Wakefield, who in 1816 married Eliza Pattle, was the eldest son of Edward Wakefield and Susanna Crash. He is mentioned and criticised in Chapter 33 of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. He was imprisoned for 3 years in 1827 for his role as a primary protagonist in the Shrigley abduction.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1796
London - Siblings
- Children
- Education
- Westminster School
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- May 16, 1862
Wellington
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on July 23, 2013
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