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Biographie. Edward Gibbon Wakefield ( 20 mars 1796 – 16 mai 1862) est un écrivain et homme politique britannique, qui est la force motrice de la plus grande partie de la première colonisation de l' Australie-Méridionale et, plus tard, de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Wakefield qui, en 1816, épouse Eliza Pattle (1799 - 1820), est le fils aîné d ...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born into a family of English Quaker reformers. Following his elopement with a young heiress who soon died, he was convicted of abducting another and, in 1827, sentenced to three years in London’s Newgate Prison. Incarcerated, he researched prison conditions and published his findings in a series of tracts ...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, on the other hand, went on to become the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of parts of Canada, South Australia and New Zealand. Colonisation Theories During his incarceration in Newgate, Edward read widely and developed theories on colonisation which ran counter to the highly-respected views of people such as Jeremy Bentham and Adam Smith.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (* 20. März 1796 in London; † 16. Mai 1862 in Wellington) war ein britischer Staatsmann, der als einer der Vertreter des Vereinigten Königreichs am Wiener Kongress teilnahm und maßgeblich an der Kolonialisierung Australiens und Neuseelands mitwirkte. Wakefield trat früh in den diplomatischen Dienst ein.
20 de jul. de 2020 · Edward Gibbon Wakefield came from a middle class home in Cumbria. He was born in 1796, to a family known for their involvement in banking and enthusiasm for humanitarian reform. But his early life was chaotic. As Dr Philip Temple explained, “Edward Gibbon’s grandfather lost his money. So they had the status but not the cash.”.
3 de mar. de 2022 · Through his mother Priscilla Bell, he was descended from the Quaker family of Robert Barclay, the apologist. Father of Arthur Wakefield (1799-1843), Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798-1858), Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), Felix Wakefield (1807-1875), William Hayward Wakefield (1801-1848), and 4 other children. Married Susannah Crash in London in ...
19 August 1853. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1823 (Alexander Turnbull Library, A-042-023) Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the mastermind behind the New Zealand Company’s organised settlement of New Zealand, first set foot in the country on 2 February 1853, 14 years after his brother William and son Edward Jerningham took part in the Company’s initial ...
