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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
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1796-1862
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WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON, eldest son of Edward Wakefield, Pall Mall, London, land agent, author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, and his first wife Susanna Crash, Felsted, Essex; b. 20 Mar 1796; adm. 13 Jan 1808; left 1810; at Edinburgh High Sch. Sep 1810 – Jan 1812; adm. Gray’s Inn 5 Oct 1813; attaché, British Embassies at Turin and Paris; made a runaway marriage with Eliza Ann Pattle, an heiress and ward in Chancery, but she died in Jul 1820; in 1826 induced Ellen Turner, a schoolgirl, to go through a ceremony of marriage with him at Gretna Green; sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for abducting her; advocated reforms to the administration of the Australian colonies 1829-49; the South Australian Association was formed in 1834 with a view to founding a colony based on Wakefield’s principles; the originator of emigration by group settlement, and successfully carried through the settlements of Adelaide, Wellington, Dunedin and Canterbury; adviser to Earl of Durham, Governor-Gen. of Canada 1838; had a large share in drafting the famous Durham report on the affairs of British North America; London Agent for New Zealand Land Co. 1839-46; emigrated to New Zealand 1852; author, Facts relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis, 1831, and other works; m. 1st, 16 Aug 1816 at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, after a previous marriage in Scotland, Eliza Anne, only child of Thomas Charles Pattle, EICS Canton; m. 2nd, 8 Mar 1826 (annulled by Act of Parliament 14 Jun 1827) Ellen, only dau. of William Turner, Shrigley, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, manufacturer; d. at Wellington, New Zealand 16 May 1862. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.