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Biography: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon

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Miles Fairburn. 'Wakefield, Edward Gibbon', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/129132/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).