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… Edward Wakefield, registered as Felix Edward, was born in … the son of Eliza Felicie Bailli and her husband, Felix Wakefield, a surveyor and engineer. After the family moved to New Zealand Wakefield spent his childhood in Christchurch and Nelson, … Wakefield, Edward …
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… Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born probably in London, England, on 20 March 1796. His father, Edward Wakefield, was a farmer and land agent, who had married … Wakefield, Edward Gibbon …
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… Edward Jerningham Wakefield, known as Jerningham, the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Eliza Anne Frances Pattle, was born in London, … Wakefield, Edward Jerningham …
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… European settlement from 1840 owed much to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a major figure in the New Zealand Company. His … much on luck and game playing. Adding to the land supply Wakefield recognised the relevance of colonies to economic … wealth between landowners, entrepreneurs and labourers. Wakefield felt colonies could also provide work for the …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… Wakefield’s ideas New Zealand was the most important setting for the experimental ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a child of the Enlightenment. His central idea … Drawing on philosopher Adam Smith’s division of labour, Wakefield suggested that available wage labour would give …
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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand
… West was accessed by boat to the mouth of the Waimea River. Wakefield 2013 population: 2,106 Wakefield was originally known as Pitfure, but the name was changed to commemorate Arthur Wakefield, killed in the Wairau affray in 1843. There were …
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Part of story: Nelson places
… policy. Colonisation – theory and reality Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory of colonisation proposed that an … However, his theory faltered on economic reality. Although Wakefield believed colonial settlement should be based on … and should eventually replace extensive pastoral tenures. Wakefield’s settlements Wakefield’s plan was devised without …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… in Christchurch in 1874. With the help of Edward Jerningham Wakefield , Bowden prepared other reading books focusing on … He then relieved at All Saints' Church, Nelson, and at Wakefield, as well as working as a classical tutor with …
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… Colonisation and settlement In 1839 Colonel William Wakefield had to work with the conquering tribes to … scheme was launched two years later under Captain Arthur Wakefield, William’s brother. Arthur Wakefield had to negotiate with the resident chiefs for …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… of Featherston's early career was his antagonism to the Wakefields. It was said that he had intended to emigrate to …
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… system. Murphy was soon on good terms with Colonel William Wakefield. He became a member of the first committee of the … and Botanical Society and was elected to the exclusive Wakefield Club's controlling body. Murphy was faced with … being accused of cheating while gambling at cards at the Wakefield Club. Further scandal followed. Murphy was …
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… – were highly planned. The company’s founder, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, had a vision of a closely settled rural society … provided a viable economy based on wool, but shattered Wakefield’s closer-settlement hopes. Martin’s borough Some …
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Part of story: City planning
… but early Wellington was chaotic. Late in 1839 William Wakefield, the company’s New Zealand agent, sailed from … beginning On his return from England a few months later, Wakefield moved the town to less flood-prone Lambton … became a centre for Wellington trade. Auckland the capital Wakefield had hoped to make Wellington the capital of New …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… settlements in New Zealand for British migrants. William Wakefield led an advance expedition in the Tory to Port … west towards Taranaki was examined. Edward Jerningham Wakefield went from Whanganui to Pātea in March 1840. In …
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Part of story: European exploration
… Company, driven by the colonial vision of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , wished to exclude Australian convicts and … as their farming industries expanded. Auckland, freer of Wakefield’s prejudices, drew more Australians than other …
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Part of story: Australians
… training. In 1839 his father's cousin, Edward Gibbon Wakefield , found him a clerical position in the London … which his brother, Angelo, sailed, as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. Within a year Angelo was dead from typhoid. When …
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… The Wakefield vision In the 1840s the New Zealand Company and … These initiatives were driven by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Concerned at the effects that population growth, … industry and large cities were having upon rural England, Wakefield wanted to create an ideal rural society in the new …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… was almost immediately at loggerheads with Captain Arthur Wakefield, the settlement's leader, over the suitability of … as useful resources of coal and timber. In November Captain Wakefield dispatched J. S. Cotterell to explore the … He and the surveyor, J. W. Barnicoat, disregarded Captain Wakefield's advice, after firing had ceased, that surrender …
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… New Zealand Company, set up by Englishman Edward Gibbon Wakefield to colonise parts of New Zealand. Other company … 1848) and Christchurch (Canterbury Association, 1850). Wakefield’s vision was of a closely settled rural society, … provided a viable economic base (wool), but shattered Wakefield’s hopes of closer settlement on small farms. …
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Part of story: City history and people
… Society and sailed aboard the Tory in May 1839. William Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Wakefield and Charles Heaphy were fellow passengers and …
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