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Biography: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon

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Bibliography

Friends of the Turnbull Library. Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the colonial dream. Wellington, 1997

Harrop, A. J. The amazing career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. London, 1928

Mills, R. C. The colonization of Australia, 1829–42. London, 1915

Morrell, W. P. British colonial policy in the age of Peel and Russell. Oxford, 1930

Stuart, P. Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand. Wellington, 1971

Temple, P. A sort of conscience: the Wakefields. Auckland, 2002

Wakefield, E. G. The collected works of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Ed. with an introduction by M. F. L. Prichard. Auckland, 1969

How to cite this page

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/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).