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Wairau Valley. Occupation (s) Royal Navy, New Zealand Company. Known for. founder of Nelson, New Zealand. Captain Arthur Wakefield (19 November 1799 – 17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand .
30 de mai. de 2022 · Young Arthur Wakefield, who was at the burning of the White House, who freed slaves off the west coast of Africa, is forever wrapped in the flag of the Nelson tradition. Te Rangihaeata, for his repeated challenges to the takeover of his people’s lands will forever hold Te Heketua in his hand.
Learn about the life and death of Arthur Wakefield, a naval officer and brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who led the New Zealand Company settlement in Nelson. Find out how he chose the site, faced the challenges and met his tragic end in the Wairau Affray.
Six-year-old Arthur Wakefield had been taken by his grandmother to witness Nelson’s funeral procession.His coffin was carried up the Thames from Greenwich to Westminster, escorted by scores of small boats and barges; the funeral procession to St Paul’s stretched all the way back to its starting point at the Admiralty.
Dr. Arthur Wakefield (known as Waker) was the youngest brother of Captain Edward Wakefield who commissioned the hydro-aeroplane Waterbird. Wakefield served in the Newfoundland Regiment and then the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgeon throughout World War 1, including at the Somme from the last days of 1915 to 12 October 1916, and was ...
Arthur Wakefield was a brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the visionary of the New Zealand Company. He led the second settlement of the Company in Nelson in 1841, but faced conflicts with Māori over land surveys and purchases.
Among the dead was Captain Arthur Wakefield, brother to Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Nelson Agent for the New Zealand Company. The Wairau Incident – known initially as the ‘Wairau Massacre’ and later as the ‘Wairau Affray’ – was the most significant instance of violence between Māori and British settlers in the years immediately ...
