NZ Births
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| Registration | Family Name | Given Name(s) | Mother's Given Name(s) | Father's Given Name(s) | Still Birth | |
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| 1942/84619 | Wakefield | Edward | Margaret Dorothy | Edward Isaac | - | Order Product |
| 1924/772 | Wakefield | George Edward | Hannah Catherine Jane | Frank Edward | - | Order Product |
| 1917/10523 | Wakefield | Edward Isaac | Agnes | Edward | - | Order Product |
| 1923/22091 | Wakefield | Arthur Edward | Mary Eveline | Arthur Edward | - | Order Product |
| 1880/18710 | Wakefield | James | Mary | William Walter | - | Order Product |
| 1879/7787 | Wakefield | Arthur Edward | Margaret Rebecca | Charles | - | Order Product |
| 1875/9181 | Wakefield | Edward Howard St George | Agnes Mildred | Edward | - | Order Product |
| 1894/14885 | Wakefield | Frank Edward | Mary | George | - | Order Product |
| 1905/119 | Wakefield | Edward George | Ada | John Thomas | - | Order Product |
| 1918/12306 | Wakefield | Timaru George Edward | Elizabeth Jane Searle | George William | - | Order Product |
| 1934/19443 | Wakefield | Edward Thomas | Alice Leonora | Arthur Norman | - | Order Product |
| 1915/5593 | Wakefield | George Edward | Alice Maud | Edward James | - | Order Product |
NZ Marriages (Bride)
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NZ Marriages (Bride, married surname)
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NZ Marriages (Groom)
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| Registration | Bride's Given Name(s) | Bride's Family Name | Groom's Given Name(s) | Groom's Family Name | |
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| 1919/8183 | Frances Euphemia | Burns | Charles Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1872/6644 | Edith Gertrude | Campbell | Edward Morden | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1939/2393 | Margaret Mary | Corry | Timaru George Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1921/5529 | Hannah Catherine Jane | Gray | Frank Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1874/10858 | Agnes Mildred | Hall | Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1913/3337 | Emily Agnes | Hentschke | Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1921/1905 | Mary Eveline Antonia | Petrie | Arthur Edward | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1946/16887 | Doris Ida | Stephens | Edward Isaac | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1930/3966 | Eileen Mary | Kendrick | Edward George | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1863/6215 | Ellen | Roe | Edward Jerningham | Wakefield | Order Product |
| 1937/12245 | Margaret Dorothy | Dunbar | Edward Isaac | Wakefield | Order Product |
NZ Births (Mother)
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NZ Deaths
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Gisborne Photo News (1954-1975, 1993–1996)
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/search/results?type=section&text=%22Edward+Wakefield%22
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Nelson Photo News (1960-1972)
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://photonews.org.nz/nelson/search/results?type=section&text=%22Edward+Wakefield%22
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Tributes Online (obituaries)
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://www.tributes.co.nz/Webform1.aspx/GetTributes
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
Wakefield, Edward 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://wdc.whanganui.govt.nz/propertyrolls/data.aspx?id=search
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Te Papa Collections - People
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://data.tepapa.govt.nz/collection/search?q=type:Person+AND+title:(Edward+AND+Wakefield)
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Source: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa / CC BY 4.0
| Name | Birth | Birthplace | Death | Died at | Gender | Nationality |
| Edward Wakefield | 25 June 1820 | London | 3 March 1879 | Ashburton | Male | British |
| Edward Wakefield | 20 March 1796 | London | 16 May 1862 | Wellington | Male | British |
Otago Nominal Index
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Source: Hocken Collections
| Surname | Forename | Address | Event Place | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Gibbon | Otago | 1837-1839 | |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Gibbon | the New Zealand Company | Otago | 31 Mar 1898 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Jerningham | Wellington | Otago | 16 Sep 1863 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Jerningham | Christchurch, Canterbury | Otago | 19 Feb 1864 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward M | St Bathans | Electoral District of Mount Ida | 1878-79 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan Electorate | 1873-74 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan Electorate | 1874-75 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan Electorate | 1875-76 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan Electorate | 1875-76 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan | 1876-77 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Cromwell | Dunstan | 1876-77 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Lawrence | Electoral District of Tuapeka | 1884 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Lawrence | Electoral District of Tuapeka | 1887 |
| WAKEFIELD | Edward Morden | Lawrence | Electoral District of Tuapeka | 1890 |
NZ Presbyterian Marriages
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Copyright Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand / "the Archives encourages the use of its collections ... for research"
Source: Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Marriages 1848 to 1935
May 1901 23/1/4 WAKEFIELD Edward Morden full age CAMPBELL 7 Apr 1872 23/1/1 WALKER Arthur 43y WHITE 24 Nov 1865 23/1/1 WALKER Robert full age McIVOR 2 Mar 1876 23/1/2 WALKER
https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/marriageregisters/cromwellmarriages2.ht...
Shadows of Time
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history site
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHRetrieved at 2:12pm, 28 March 2025 in 1.046 seconds
Source: Our Stuff by Denise and Peter on Rootsweb / "All information, lists and stories on this site may be freely linked to"
Mulgrave St Merchant Wakefield Edward Jerningham Wellington Tce Settler Wakefield Edward Gibbon Tinakori Rd Settler Wakelin George Willis St Cabinet maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1858Q-Z.htm
Elect1857Q-Z
Wellington Tce Settler Wakefield Edward Jerningham Wellington Tce Settler Wakefield Edward Gibbons Tinakori Rd Settler Wakelin George Willis St Cabinet maker Wakelin Richard
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1857Q-Z.htm
Elect1865Q-Z
Jones Ingestre St Wakefield Edward Jerningham Wellington Tce This name has been crossed out. Waklin Richard Tory St Waitere Hoani Hutt Waldin Thomas Lambton Qu Walden John Willis
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1865Q-Z.htm
ElectoralRol1857K-P
Barrister at Law Wakefield Edward Jerningham Wellington Tce Settler Wakefield Edward Gibbon Tinakori Rd Settler Wakelin George Willis St Cabinet Maker Wakelin Richard Mulgrave St
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1856Q-Z.htm
JP1868M-Z
Edward Alexandra, Auckland Wakefield Edward Jerningham Christchurch Walker Lancelot Four Peaks, Canterbury Walker George Popplewell Opotiki, Auckland Walmsley Benjamin Nelson
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/JP1868M-Z.htm
Tory
John 32 Colonial Surgeon Wakefield Edward Jerningham 18 Heaphy Charles 17 Draughtsman Dieffenbach Dr Ernst 28 Naturalist Native of Berlin, Germany. Nayati (Ngatai) New Zealand
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Tory.htm
Claims to VoteCh A-E
Hopkins Christchurch W Wakefield Edward Jerningham Durham St North Wallace Robert Kilmore St West Waterlow Richard Frederick Whatley Rd Webb John William Kilmore St, Cranmer
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/claims_to_voteChA-E.htm
CustomsDepartment
Hokianga 17th April1862 Wakefield Edward Warehouse Keeper Dunedin 1st May 1865 Ward Charles Warehouse Keeper Lyttelton 1st May 1846 Warde Charles Tide Surveyor Lyttelton 1st Aug.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/CustomsDepartment.htm
Elect1854Q-Z
Barrister at Law Wakefield Edward Jerningham Christchurch Settler Wakefield Edward Gibbon Wellington Settler Wakelin George Willis St Cabinetmaker Wakelin Richard Lambton Qu
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Elect1854Q-Z.htm
LadyNugent1850
Bound for Wellington Wakefield Edward Jerningham 32 Gentleman Bound for Wellington Fore-Cabin Passengers Bishop Ann 23 Servant Bound for Wellington Bolton Frederick 24 Gentleman
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/LadyNugent1850.htm
Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
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Source: New Zealand Genealogy Research Made Easy, by Barbara Andrew / "pages may be freely linked"
Judge, Supreme Court Wakefield Edward Gibbon 66 16th May 1862 Gentleman Wakefield Selina Elizabeth - 20th August 1848 Wakefield William 47 19th September 1848 Principal Agent to
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facethemao
Arther Capt. Brother of Edward WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD Edwin Gibbon WALKER Sophia Ann WARDRUM Samual Pvt.58th Foot, Reg No 645. Known as Gunner. Died May 1845. From County Tyrone.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~babznz/genealogy/facethemaori.html
Transcriptions NZ
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHRetrieved at 2:12pm, 28 March 2025 in 0.469 seconds
Source: Transcriptions NZ / courtesy of Beverley Evans
July 1923 age 70 hus. ... July 1938 age 65 hus. ... April 1930 age 85 & dau. ... Mabel (formerly BERKETT) d. ... Lawrence (1/NZEF) d. ... June 1943 age 85 & hus. ... Robert (1/NZEF
https://www.transcriptions.nz/Gravestone.Photos/Bromley.Cemetery.html
1879.March.Star.Christchurch.snippets
Obituary - 012 & 013 WAKEFIELD - Edward Jerningham, an ... Ashburton --- Ashburton - 015 WAKEFIELD - Edward Jerningham -- funeral will ... write up - 024 WAKEFIELD - Edward J. who died
https://www.transcriptions.nz/1870-1908/1879.March.Star.Christchurch.snippets.ht...
Alexander Turnbull Library
Wakefield, Edward 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/imu/request.php
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Source: Alexander Turnbull Library by National Library / CC BY 3.0 NZ
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| Correspondence re elections and sales of parliamentary seats | MS-Papers-9512-34. Correspondence re elections and sales of parliamentary seats. 1816-1826. Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Item] | |
| Letters to his father | MS-Papers-9512-46. Letters to his father. 1816-1819. Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Item] | |
| Letters to his father (transcripts) | MS-Papers-9512-47. Letters to his father (transcripts). 1816-1819. Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Item] | |
| Letters to his father and Charles Torlesse | MS-Papers-9512-48. Letters to his father and Charles Torlesse. 1819, n d (ca 1850?). Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Item] | |
| Correspondence (Has-Hj) | MS-Papers-0181-040. Correspondence (Has-Hj). 1920-1932. Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files (MS-Papers-0181). [Item] | |
| Gillespie, Mr : Photograph of Wakefield's flag | PAColl-7549. Gillespie, Mr : Photograph of Wakefield's flag. ca 1950s. [Item] | |
| [Various artists] :Owens Group calendar, 1982 | C-086-1982-02. [Various artists] :Owens Group calendar, 1982. [Item] | |
| Edward Wakefield | 35mm-00152-f-F. Edward Wakefield. [ca 1885]. General Assembly Library :Parliamentary portraits (ATL-Group-00214). [Item] | |
| Series 2 Papers relating to Edward Wakefield | Series 2 Papers relating to Edward Wakefield. 1807-1855. Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Series] | |
| Series 6 Papers relating to Catherine Torlesse | Series 6 Papers relating to Catherine Torlesse. 1815-1855, 1963. Wakefield family : Papers (MS-Group-1801). [Series] | |
| Wakefield, Edward, 1774-1854 : Letters to Edward Stafford | MS-Papers-3651. Wakefield, Edward, 1774-1854 : Letters to Edward Stafford. 1852-1853. [Item] | |
| Memorials - Surnames Nes-Nor | MS-Papers-2260-057. Memorials - Surnames Nes-Nor. Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Bolton Street Cemetery transcripts, notes and papers / compiled by Margaret Alington and others (MS-Papers-2260). [Item] | |
| Morrah, Pamela, fl 1980 : Material on the history of the Morrah family | MS-Papers-11092. Morrah, Pamela, fl 1980 : Material on the history of the Morrah family. 1980. [Item] | |
| Miscellaneous papers | MS-Papers-2068-11. Miscellaneous papers. 1866, 1886, 1922, nd. Beaglehole, Joseph Samuel, 1875-1962 : Papers (MS-Papers-2068). [Item] | |
| Private correspondence | MS-Papers-0063-08. Private correspondence. 1841-1842. Bradey, Francis, 1793-1864 : Papers (MS-Papers-0063). [Item] | |
| Blomfield, Charles 1848-1926. :Mount Tarawera in eruption, June 10, 1886. (From the native village of Waitangi, Lake Tarawera, N.Z.) W. Potts, lith. C Blomfield, del. Wanganui, A D Willis [ca 188-?] | C-033-002. Blomfield, Charles 1848-1926. :Mount Tarawera in eruption, June 10, 1886. (From the native village of Waitangi, Lake Tarawera, N.Z.) W. Potts, lith. C Blomfield, del. Wanganui, A D Willis [ca 188-?]. [Item] | |
| Letters and papers | MS-Papers-1009-2/44. Letters and papers. 1814-1860. Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster (MS-Group-0002). [Item] | |
| Artist unknown :[White Terraces, 1870s or early 1880s]. [Wanganui? A. D. Willis?, 1880s?] | B-080-027. Artist unknown :[White Terraces, 1870s or early 1880s]. [Wanganui? A. D. Willis?, 1880s?]. [Item] | |
| Edward Wakefield - Papers | Micro-MS-0927-01. Edward Wakefield - Papers. 1784-1854. Wakefield family : Papers (Micro-MS-0927). [Item] | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield letters & Edward Wakefield journal | Micro-MS-0927-05. Edward Gibbon Wakefield letters & Edward Wakefield journal. n d, 11 Apr-22 Jun 1836. Wakefield family : Papers (Micro-MS-0927). [Item] |
DigitalNZ
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| Edward Wakefield | Edward Wakefield, circa 1885. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative | Not specified | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library | |
| New Zealand after fifty years by Edward Wakefield | Physical Description: vi, 236 p., [25] p. of plates : ill., fold. map ; 23 cm. Note: Includes index. Published: New York ; Cassell & Company, Limited, [1889] | Wakefield, Edward, 1845-1924. | HathiTrust Digital Library / HathiTrust | |
| Sir Edward William Stafford, G.C.M.G. : a memoir / by Edward Wakefield. | Wakefield, Edward, 1845-1924 | National Library of New Zealand Catalogue / National Library of New Zealand | ||
| Edward Wakefield (New Zealand politician) | Wikipedia / Wikipedia | |||
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield | Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | ||
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The founders of Canterbury. Volume I : being letters from the late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the late John Robert Godley and to other well-known helpers in the foundation of the settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand | 1/2 leather bound; brown leather boards; gold design spine; spine cords; gold lettering spine; marbled textblock fore edge; 0 - Whole = Height x Width x Depth (mm) = 227 x 25 x 144mm; book | Author: Edward Wakefield (b.1796, d.1862) Publisher: Stevens and Co. |
Nelson Provincial Museum / Nelson Provincial Museum |
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Macdonald Dictionary Record: Edward Wakefield | One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Edward Wakefield. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964. | George Ranald Macdonald | Canterbury Museum / Canterbury Museum |
| Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844 | Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. - London: Murray, 1845 | Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek | ||
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield : builder of the British Commonwealth | Bloomfield, Paul, 1898- | Howick Historical Village NZMuseums / Howick Historical Village | ||
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Wakefield: Edward Street residence | Perhaps a shop in earlier times? Edward Street, Wakefield, Tasman... | PhilBee NZ (social historian) | Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Ara Flickr / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
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Fig. 57A.—Reading from left to right: Edward Wakefield (M.P.), R. D. D. Maclean (Sir Douglas), and Oliver Wakefield | Early Wellington - Football Match - Fig. 57A.—Reading from left to right: Edward Wakefield (M.P.), R. D. D. Maclean (Sir Douglas), and Oliver Wakefield. | Louis E. Ward | New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield: the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand | Physical Description: 386p. Note: Title in red and black. Published: London T. Fisher Unwin 1898 | Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906. | HathiTrust Digital Library / HathiTrust | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield : the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand by R. Garnett | Physical Description: xxvii, 386 p. : port., maps ; 20 cm. Note: Title in red and black. Published: London : Unwin, 1898. | Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906. | HathiTrust Digital Library / HathiTrust | |
| Artist unknown :Edward Jerningham Wakefield [ca 1850] | Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Edward Jerningham Wakefield from the frontispiece of his book `Adventure in New Zealand' Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1908 (First published in 1845). Artist not identified. Physical Description: Engraving, 190 x 100 mm | Not specified | TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library |
Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The founders of Canterbury. Volume I : being letters from the late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the late John Robert Godley and to other well-known helpers in the foundation of the settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
1/2 leather bound; brown leather boards; gold design spine; spine cords; gold lettering spine; marbled textblock fore edge; 0 - Whole = Height x Width x Depth (mm) = 227 x 25 x 144mm; book
Author: Edward Wakefield (b.1796, d.1862)Publisher: Stevens and Co. Nelson Provincial Museum / Nelson Provincial Museum
Macdonald Dictionary Record: Edward Wakefield
One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Edward Wakefield. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
George Ranald Macdonald
Canterbury Museum / Canterbury Museum
Wakefield: Edward Street residence
Perhaps a shop in earlier times?
Edward Street, Wakefield, Tasman...
PhilBee NZ (social historian)
Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Ara Flickr / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Fig. 57A.—Reading from left to right: Edward Wakefield (M.P.), R. D. D. Maclean (Sir Douglas), and Oliver Wakefield
Early Wellington - Football Match - Fig. 57A.—Reading from left to right: Edward Wakefield (M.P.), R. D. D. Maclean (Sir Douglas), and Oliver Wakefield.
Louis E. Ward
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
Legacy.com NZ Obituaries
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Source: Copyright Stuff Ltd / limited search result excerpts for personal non-commercial use
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| Edward Thomas WAKEFIELD | WAKEFIELD, Edward Thomas (Ted). Passed suddenly in Whakatane on 9th October 2021 aged 87 years. Much loved husband and best friend of Barbara for 62 years. Loved father and father-in-law of Grant and Debbie; Mark and Anne-Marie; Todd and Duang; Amanda. Loving Poppa to 9 grandchildren... | on Oct. 13, 2021 |
| Victor Edward WAKEFIELD | WAKEFIELD, Victor Edward. Born 16 January 1935. Died 10 July 2020. Passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord with family at his side. Dearly beloved husband of Kay. Adored father of the late Gregory and Gerard. Granda of Lars. Much loved father-in-law to Juliet and Hana. Grateful... | on Jul. 21, 2020 |
| Gregory Edward WAKEFIELD | WAKEFIELD, Gregory Edward. We are celebrating the gift of our son, born to Victor and Kay Wakefield in Sunderland England 50 years ago to this day. Kind, loving, gentle, with a fine sense of humour, we remember him with love and the legacy of memories he left us. Elder brother of... | on Dec. 21, 2012 |
Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://api.aucklandmuseum.com/search/cenotaph/_search
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Timaru George Edward Wakefield
15290 World War II, 1939-1945 Married/WWII Mrs. Margaret Mary Wakefield, 25 High St., Timaru (wife) Timaru/Canterbury/New Zealand Runner-off Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Third Echelon Infantry Reinforcements Private War Medal 1939-1945 New Zealand War Service MedalTe Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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Wakefield, Edward | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Edward Wakefield | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward | In 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online. | McLintock, Alexander Hare Edmund Bohan, M.A., School Teacher and Professional Singer (overseas). New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Wakefield, Edward Jerningham | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon | In 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online. | McLintock, Alexander Hare William Parker Morrell, M.A.(N.Z.), D.PHIL.(OXON.), Professorial Fellow, History and Political Science Department, University of Otago. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Jerningham | In 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online. | McLintock, Alexander Hare David Oswald William Hall, M.A., Director, Adult Education, University of Otago (retired). New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
| Economic thought: Wakefield and the economics of colonies | Systematic colonisation New Zealand’s organised European settlement from 1840 owed much to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a major figure in the New Zealand Company. His plan of ‘systematic colonisation’ marked the most significant early impact of economic thinking on New ... | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Paremata whaling station | This engraving shows the whaling station of Joseph Toms (spelt 'Thoms' in the picture title) at Paremata in the 1840s. The station was visited by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, the son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1845 Jerningham Wakefield published Adventure in New Zealand | Samuel Charles Brees New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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William Wakefield memorial | This memorial was ordered in 1850, two years after William Wakefield, the younger brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, died. William had assisted Edward Gibbon in the abduction of Ellen Turner, for which both were imprisoned, and had supported his brother's vision for colonies in the New World... | Andy Palmer New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
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Priscilla Wakefield | Priscilla Wakefield, the grandmother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (who was to found the New Zealand Company), was a Quaker. Like many Protestant dissenters in late 18th-century and 19th-century Britain, she was a reformer and activist. Wakefield started a charity for ... | Thomas Charles Wageman New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
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Grave of Edward Gibbon Wakefield | Edward Gibbon Wakefield, publicist and promoter of the New Zealand Company’s colonisation plan for New Zealand, made his final home in Wellington, the first of the New Zealand Company settlements to be established. He died there on 16 May 1862. His tombstone, in Bolton Street Cemetery, ... | Melanie Lovell-Smith New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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William Wakefield | William Wakefield was responsible for a number of pre-Treaty purchases by the New Zealand Company which were drawn up at Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour). This sketch shows him at his 1826 trial for assisting his brother Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the ... | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
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View of Nelson | This lithograph of Nelson in 1842 was based on a work by early Nelson settler John Waring Saxton. The lithograph was published in 1845 in Adventures in New Zealand by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Edward Gibbon Wakefield's only son. The book was a conscious effort ... | John Waring Saxton New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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| Ideas in New Zealand: Wakefield and the ‘better Britain’ | 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 was that if land in colonies was sold at a ‘sufficient price’, this would cure major problems for both ... | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Engraved portrait of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1826 | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Wairaweke (William Wakefield) | Nā Wairaweke (William Wakefield) ngā hoko whenua a te Kamupene o Niu Tīreni i whakahaere i mua i te hainatanga o te Tiriti. I whakaritea ēnei hokonga ki Pōneke. He tānga huahua tēnei o Wairaweke mai i te tau 1826, i te whakawātanga o tana teina a Edward Gibbon Wakefield i te tau mō te ... | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage |
| Land ownership: Early Pākehā land settlement | For Pākehā, as for Māori, land ownership was the most important political issue in New Zealand during the 19th century. This was only partly because of its economic importance – owning land had immense cultural and ideological importance to settlers and their descendants, as it did to M... | New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga | Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage | |
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Edward Stafford's house | This George Channing watercolour shows the Nelson house of Edward Stafford, possibly in Haven Road, in the 1860s. Stafford bought the house from the New Zealand Company in 1849. In 1846 he had married the daughter of William Wakefield, the chief agent of the New Zealand Company. Stafford was the ... | George Channing Gilbert New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga |
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Wakefield, Edward
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Edward Wakefield
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Edmund Bohan, M.A., School Teacher and Professional Singer (overseas).
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Wakefield, Edward Jerningham
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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield
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William Parker Morrell, M.A.(N.Z.), D.PHIL.(OXON.), Professorial Fellow, History and Political Science Department, University of Otago.
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David Oswald William Hall, M.A., Director, Adult Education, University of Otago (retired).
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Paremata whaling station
This engraving shows the whaling station of Joseph Toms (spelt 'Thoms' in the picture title) at Paremata in the 1840s. The station was visited by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, the son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1845 Jerningham Wakefield published Adventure in New Zealand
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William Wakefield memorial
This memorial was ordered in 1850, two years after William Wakefield, the younger brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, died. William had assisted Edward Gibbon in the abduction of Ellen Turner, for which both were imprisoned, and had supported his brother's vision for colonies in the New World...
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Priscilla Wakefield
Priscilla Wakefield, the grandmother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (who was to found the New Zealand Company), was a Quaker. Like many Protestant dissenters in late 18th-century and 19th-century Britain, she was a reformer and activist. Wakefield started a charity for ...
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Grave of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, publicist and promoter of the New Zealand Company’s colonisation plan for New Zealand, made his final home in Wellington, the first of the New Zealand Company settlements to be established. He died there on 16 May 1862. His tombstone, in Bolton Street Cemetery, ...
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William Wakefield
William Wakefield was responsible for a number of pre-Treaty purchases by the New Zealand Company which were drawn up at Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour). This sketch shows him at his 1826 trial for assisting his brother Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the ...
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View of Nelson
This lithograph of Nelson in 1842 was based on a work by early Nelson settler John Waring Saxton. The lithograph was published in 1845 in Adventures in New Zealand by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Edward Gibbon Wakefield's only son. The book was a conscious effort ...
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Engraved portrait of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1826
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Wairaweke (William Wakefield)
Nā Wairaweke (William Wakefield) ngā hoko whenua a te Kamupene o Niu Tīreni i whakahaere i mua i te hainatanga o te Tiriti. I whakaritea ēnei hokonga ki Pōneke. He tānga huahua tēnei o Wairaweke mai i te tau 1826, i te whakawātanga o tana teina a Edward Gibbon Wakefield i te tau mō te ...
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Edward Stafford's house
This George Channing watercolour shows the Nelson house of Edward Stafford, possibly in Haven Road, in the 1860s. Stafford bought the house from the New Zealand Company in 1849. In 1846 he had married the daughter of William Wakefield, the chief agent of the New Zealand Company. Stafford was the ...
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Find A Grave (NZ cemeteries)
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| Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Cemetery location | Region |
| Edward Wakefield | Karori Cemetery and Crematorium | Wellington, Wellington City | Wellington | ||
| Edward Wakefield | Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium | Camberley, Hastings District | Hawke's Bay | ||
| Edward George Wakefield | 1905 🔍 | 30 Nov 1977 🔍 📰 | Havelock North Cemetery | Havelock North, Hastings District | Hawke's Bay |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 20 Mar 1796 🔍 | 16 May 1862 🔍 📰 | Bolton Street Cemetery | Wellington, Wellington City | Wellington |
| Edward Jerningham Wakefield | 25 Jun 1820 🔍 | 3 Mar 1879 🔍 📰 | Pioneer Park Memorial | Ashburton, Ashburton District | Canterbury |
| Edward John Wakefield | 1867 🔍 | 25 May 1939 🔍 📰 | Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium | Meadowbank, Auckland Council | Auckland |
| Edward Joseph Wakefield | 1881 🔍 | 1 Dec 1924 🔍 📰 | Bromley Cemetery | Bromley, Christchurch City | Canterbury |
| Edward Morton Wakefield | Lawrence Cemetery | Lawrence, Clutha District | Otago |
Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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| Title | Date | Record type |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | 1853-06-25 | Auckland People and Events |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | 1850 | Auckland People and Events |
| Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879 | 1850 | Auckland People and Events |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | 1850 | Auckland People and Events |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | Index Cards | |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | Index Cards | |
| Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 | Index Cards | |
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| Wakefield House | Index Cards |
Upper Hutt City Libraries Heritage Collections
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NZ Electronic Text Centre
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Archives NZ
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Justice Department > Inwards letters and registered files
Ministry of Transport, Head Office > Seafarers' Certificates and Licenses
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| New Zealand - Master's Certificate of Service (Home Trade) - Edward Wakefield Penney | 1892 | Wellington | Open |
Land Information New Zealand, National Office > North and South Auckland Compulsory Applications
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Harriet Ann Selina Penney wife of Edward Wakefield Penney of Kaeo, Carpenter - part of Allotment 56 of the Parish of Kaeo | 1933 ‑ 1938 | Auckland | Open |
Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Central filing system
Dunedin High Court > Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (I)
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD Edward Morden - Colac Bay and Lawrence - Retired Bank Officer | 1924 | Dunedin | Open |
Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Central filing system
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Minister of Internal Affairs - General Applications - Edward Gibbon Wakefield Statue | 1989 ‑ 1990 | Wellington | Open |
New Munster Government > Colonial Secretary's inwards correspondence
Ministry of Justice, Head Office > Justices of the Peace Nomination Files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Nomination for Appointment as Justice of the Peace - Wakefield, George Edward | 1975 ‑ 1976 | Wellington | Restricted |
Ministry of Economic Development, Napier Regional Office > Closed insolvency files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Isaack | 1938 | Wellington | Open |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Isaack | 1938 | Wellington | Open |
Ministry of Transport, Head Office > Index to Seafarers' Certificates
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Penney, Edward Wakefield | 1892 | Wellington | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files [third sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD Edward Isaac | 1990 | Wellington | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files [second sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| PAINTON Edward John | 1943 | Wellington | Open | |
| WAKEFIELD Edward Roger | 1946 | Wellington | Open | |
| BURN Edward Avery | 1941 | Wellington | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files (first sequence)
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| NICHOLSON, Edward Wakefield | 1870 | Wellington | Open | |
| MORRAH, Edward Wakefield | 1894 | Wellington | Open | |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon | 1862 | Wellington | Open |
Department of Justice, High Court, Gisborne > Gisborne bankruptcy files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Bankruptcy file - Edward Wakefield Thomas | 1909 ‑ 1911 | Auckland | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Land valuation files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Application for consent to sale - Lionel Henry Wakefield to Ronald Edward Treen | 1949 | Auckland | Open |
| Application for consent to sale - Ronald Edward Treen to Lionel Henry Wakefield and Gordon Gerald Hastie | 1949 | Auckland | Open |
New Zealand Customs Service, Auckland Office > Customs Inwards Letters
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Auckland actions/civil proceedings files
Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Alien registration files (1949-77 system)
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Davies Edward - American | 1949 ‑ 1958 | Auckland | Open |
| Wakefield, Davies Edward (American) | 1949 ‑ 1968 | Wellington | Open |
Educorp Services (New Zealand) Limited > Hamilton Education Salary Cards
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Salary card for EDWARDS Dorothea Edith nee Wakefield | 1966 ‑ 1971 | Auckland | Restricted |
Timaru Court Office > Timaru Probate Files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD Timaru Edward George - Timaru - Retired Overseer | 1992 | Christchurch | Open | |
| WAKEFIELD Frank Edward - Timaru - Plumber | 1955 | Christchurch | Open |
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Probate files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD Edward Jermingham - Christchurch - Gentleman | 1879 | Christchurch | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington divorce files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Edward Isaac v Wakefield, Margaret Dorothy and Brinson, David Helene | 1943 ‑ 1944 | Wellington | Restricted |
| Wakefield, Ellen v Wakefield, Edward Jerningham | 1878 | Wellington | Open |
Lawrence Magistrate's Court > Lawrence Application files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Application for special dredging claim - The Tuapeka Dredging Company Limited - Block VI Tuapeka West District | 1901 | Dunedin | Open |
Land Titles Office, Auckland > Auckland land district discharged mortgages and surrender of leases - Deeds system
Pseudo-agency for records documented in WHAT > WHAT records
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| [Envelope of documents concerning ... related correspondence and other papers which ... | 1841 ‑ 1871 | Wellington | Open |
Department of Justice, Head Office > Wellington Land District Deposited Deeds
Alexandra District Court > Cromwell Application files
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Court miscellaneous papers
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Listed in CH53/23 p30 Ex parte Agnes HOSSACK, William WILSON, and John ANDERSON v Edward Jemingham WAKEFIELD | 1861 | Christchurch | Open |
Napier High Court > Napier probate files [third sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Edward | 1927 ‑ 1950 | Wellington | Open |
Sir Walter Nash > Photographs
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Walter Nash at Edward Gibbon Wakefield Memorial, 16th May, 1945 | 1945 | Wellington | Open |
Sir Walter Nash > Newspaper clippings and speeches
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Speech: Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 1959 | Wellington | Open |
| Speech on Edward Gibbon Wakefield | Wellington | Open |
Palmerston North High Court > Palmerston North Probate files [second sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| JENNINGS Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 1987 ‑ 1989 | Wellington | Open |
Dunedin High Court > Dunedin Divorce Files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Edward v Wakefied, Agnes Mildred and Withers, Edward | 1886 | Dunedin | Open |
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Deed Registration Act files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Deeds Registration Act 1868 file - 39/1877 - Anthony KNIGHT and Edward SCRIVENOR to Edward Wakefield MORRAH and Robert SYMINGTON and others. | 1877 | Christchurch | Open |
Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch District Office > Papers of the [Canterbury] Provincial Council
Department of Social Welfare, Corporate Office > Former servicemen's rehabilitation files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Edward Isaac | 1946 ‑ 1952 | Wellington | Restricted |
| Wakefield, Edward George [Navy] | 1946 ‑ 1951 | Wellington | Restricted |
Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch District Office > Inwards Correspondence to the Provincial Secretary [ICPS]
Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington District Office > Commissioner of Crown Lands registered files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| From: E. J. Wakefield, Wellington Date: [unstated] Subject: Authority for E. [Edward] Pearce to receive crown grant for Sections 62 and 63, Right Bank, Wanganui | 1863 ‑ 1877 | Wellington | Open |
| From: D Wakefield, Wellington Date: 21 July 1853 Subject: Receipt of grant to Edward Catchpool | 1853 | Wellington | Open |
New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives > Military Personnel Files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD, Thomas Edward - WWI N/N - Army [Temporary Employment Service - New Zealand Military Forces Attestation Form (N.Z. Military Form B/4b) only] | 1919 | Wellington | Open |
Napier High Court > Napier probate files [fifth sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wakefield, Edward George | 1971 ‑ 1978 | Wellington | Open |
Hamilton High Court > Hamilton Miscellaneous files [Second Series]
Hamilton High Court > Hamilton bankruptcy files [fourth series]
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Hamilton High Court Bankruptcy - Edwards: Patrick v Mico Wakefield Ltd | 1994 | Auckland | Restricted |
Justice Courts - Nelson > Court of Review - Adjustment Commission
Justice Department > Coroners Inquests, case files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Coroners Inquests - Case Files - Wellington - Wakefield, Charles Edward | 1950 | Wellington | Open |
| Coroners inquests unnecessary - ... | 1960 | Wellington | Open |
Department for Courts, Auckland High Court > Auckland probates
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| WAKEFIELD Edward John - Auckland - Retired Gardener | 1939 | Auckland | Open | |
| Gregory Edward Wakefield, Auckland, Electrician | 1999 | Auckland | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Auckland probates - second sequence
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| SHORTT John Edward Fitzgerald - Albion St, Wakefield, England - Gentleman | 1918 | Auckland | Open |
Department of Lands and Survey, Christchurch District Office > Canterbury Association, Canterbury Office Inwards & Outwards Correspondence
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| H.F. Alston to J.R. Godley - agreement made by Alexander Ridgway of London, Notary Public, for Edward Gibbon Wakefield to Felix Wakefield concerning transfer of land orders - 28/05/1851 | 1851 | Christchurch | Open |
New Zealand Police, Auckland District Headquarters > Police Reports - Auckland region
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Police Station, Auckland - Reports of Constable R G Wade and Sergeant E Murray relative to window broken at 10 Wakefield Street, occupied by John Henry Edwards, carver | 1913 | Auckland | Open |
🏢 Agency
| Name | Year(s) |
| New Zealand Company | 1839 ‑ 1858 |
| New Zealand Company | 1825 ‑ 1858 |
Tinui History
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Masterton Anglican History
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Tasman Heritage
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West Coast NZ History
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Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
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Canterbury Museum Collections - People
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Lower Hutt MyRecollect
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ
| Name | Biography | Reference |
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| Edward Wakefield | EDWARD WAKEFIELD (q.v.) was a son. Another son, OLIVER, became Under-secretary for Mines. He died in Mar 1884. D.N.B.; E. Wakefield, Stafford; Harrop, Wakefield; O'Connor; Deans; Lyttelton Times, 8, 22 Jul, 29 Aug 1854, 24, 27 Dec 1875. | Volume 2, page 225 |
| Edward Wakefield | WAKEFIELD, EDWARD (1845-1924) was born in Tasmania, the son of Felix Wakefield (q.v.), and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1851, spent a year in Canterbury and then went to England. He was educated in France and at King's College, London, and in 1863 returned to New Zealand and joined the staff of the Nelson Examiner (then edited by J.C. Richmond). He entered the civil service (1865), became private secretary to Stafford (1866) and was for four years secretary to the cabinet. After this extended period of secretarial duty, he joined the Customs department at Dunedin (1869) and served there and in Auckland. In 1874, at the suggestion of Stafford, he resigned to become editor of the Timaru Herald. During 10 years in that position he successfully advocated the creation of a modern port for South Canterbury by the construction of a breakwater. He was at the same time leader writer for the Otago Daily Times, the New Zealand Times and The Press. Wakefield was M.H.R. for Geraldine (1875-81). Being defeated there, he contested Inangahua against E. Shaw (q.v.) in 1883. In 1884 he was elected unopposed for Selwyn and was for one week Colonial Secretary in the Atkinson Government (1884). Retiring from politics in 1887, he became editor of the Evening Press (Wellington). In 1890 he went to London and was afterwards appointed agent in New York of the British and United States Agency, but had to close it up in view of the financial stringency (1890). Thereafter he worked for the New Zealand press in London. Wakefield published in 1889 New Zealand after Fifty Years. In his later years, when he suffered from blindness, he was admitted to the Carthusian foundation and lived in the Charterhouse, in recognition of his interest in Empire affairs. Just before his death (which occurred on 10 Aug 1924) he contributed to the Nineteenth Century an article on his friendship with Dickens and he published privately in 1923 a brochure on Sir Edward Stafford. N.Z.P.D., 2 Jun 1925; E. Wakefield, op. cit.; United Empire, 1924, p. 630 (p); Timaru Herald, 15 Aug 1924. | Volume 2, page 224 |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON (1796-1862) was the son of Edward Wakefield, who at the time of his birth was a farmer in Essex, but afterwards became a land agent in London; achieved fame as an educationalist and philanthropist and was the author of An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political (1812). Through his mother, Priscilla Bell, he was descended from the Quaker family of Robert Barclay, the apologist, and he was thus related to F. D. Bell (q.v.). Owing to the straitened circumstances of his father, Edward and several of his brothers lived for part of their childhood with their grandmother at Tottenham. She was a noted philanthropist. The boys went first to Haigh's school. At that early age Edward showed a perverseness and intractability which increased in his youth and was the cause of his leaving each of the schools to which he was sent. He left Haigh's in Dec 1807 for Westminster, where he had many fights and difficulties, and eventually refused to go back. Thence to the High School at Edinburgh, which he left in 1811, stubbornly refusing to go back. In 1813 he was admitted at Gray's Inn, but in the following year he became private secretary to the Hon William Noel Hill, son of Lord Berwick, and then envoy to the court of Turin. He travelled a good deal as a king's messenger and saw much of fashionable life in Italy and Paris. Having made the acquaintance of Eliza Susan Pattle, the heiress of a Canton merchant, Thomas Charles Pattle (deceased), they eloped and were married at Edinburgh (1816). The mother and uncles of the girl were won over, and through the influence of Hill the Lord Chancellor not only sanctioned the marriage, but made the most liberal settlement on Wakefield. He was to receive from £1,500 to £2,000 a year, independent of any private property of his own and subject to no control, the allowance to be increased by £2,000 a year at the death of his mother-in-law. The couple went to Genoa on a diplomatic mission, and then back to Turin. Wakefield became secretary to the legation, where his brother William was also employed. There Wakefield's first child, Susan Priscilla, was born (1817). The mother died on 5 Jul 1820, after the birth of the second child, Edward Jerningham. Meanwhile Wakefield had been employed as attache and secretary-general at the embassy in Paris, where they saw much of fashionable life. In 1824 his father married Frances, the daughter of the Rev Dr Davies, headmaster of the Macclesfield Grammar School. Wakefield and his brother visited this family at Macclesfield, and through them became aware of the existence of a wealthy heiress, Ellen, the daughter of William Turner, a manufacturer, of Shrigley, Cheshire, and sheriff of the county of Yorkshire. In Mar 1826 Edward and William Wakefield, by means of a ruse, persuaded the girl to leave the school and took her to Gretna Green, where Edward went through a form of marriage with her. He then took his wife to London, Dover and Calais, where they were overtaken by the girl's uncles and police agents. William had already been arrested in England, and Wakefield offered to return to face the charge of abduction. They were tried at the Lancaster assizes, their stepmother, Frances Wakefield, and the servant, Thevenot, being also indicted; and were found guilty. On 14 May 1827 Edward and William were each sentenced to three years imprisonment, the former at Newgate and the latter at Lancaster. Frances was not sentenced. A bill was passed by Parliament to annul the marriage, which had not been consummated. After his transfer to Newgate prison Wakefield was permitted to see his children and to take an active part in their education. In his prison surroundings he saw much of the seamy side of life, and became interested in trying to reform aspects which seemed unnecessarily harsh. In 1830 he wrote an essay, The Condemned Sermon (which was published in Popular Politics in 1837), and in 1831 he wrote Facts Relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis. The public were shocked by some of his disclosures, and certain reforms which he suggested were carried into effect. It was here, too, that Wakefield entered upon that close study of the subject of colonisation which was to issue in a masterly thesis a few years later. He investigated the Swan river failure, which he was convinced was due to the dispersal of the settlers over too wide an area by the granting of vast estates to wealthy emigrants in the neighbourhood of the settlement. From this he developed his theory that land should be sold at too high a price to enable the labourers too readily to become landowners, thus depriving the land of its due supply of labour. He elaborated his system in the sketch of a proposed colony which appeared in a series of articles in the Morning Chronicle (Aug-Oct 1829). In the same year was published his book, A Letter from Sydney, together with an Outline of a System of Colonisation. In this book (edited by Robert Gouger) he insisted that all land in the colony should be sold, and that there should be a tax on rents of lands already sold and on future sales to form an emigration fund, which should be applied to the introduction of a due proportion of labourers for the needs of the settlement. He now abandoned his fixed price of £2 per acre for land, and suggested that the 'sufficient price' must be fixed according to the conditions of each settlement. In Apr 1830 he published (in the Spectator) 'The Cure and Prevention of Pauperism by means of Systematic Colonisation.' Shortly after his release (which took place in May) he formed the National Colonisation Society, which consisted of a small select band of thinkers, and absorbed Gouger's Emigration Society. The first pamphlet, A Statement of the Principles and Objects of the Proposed National Society for the Cure and Prevention of Pauperism by Means of Systematic Colonisation, appeared in 1830. In 1831 Lord Goderich became Secretary of State for the Colonies (with Lord Howick as Under-secretary), and in regulations published shortly afterwards it was provided that henceforth all land in New South Wales should be sold at not less than 5s per acre. In 1831 Gouger and Wakefield brought forward the South Australia project and obtained the approval of Howick, with the proviso that the governor of the settlement should be appointed by the government and not by the chartered company. Goderich, however, did not approve the scheme (30 May 1832). In 1833, when Wakefield published his England and America; a Comparison of the Social and Political State of both Nations, the Society had 42 members, including Charles Buller, John Stuart Mill, John Hutt, Colonel R. Torrens, Sir F. Burdett, and Sir J. C. Hobhouse. It was revitalised by this publication. At the end of the year the South Australian Association was formed, with Buller, Torrens and Roebuck on the committee. Wakefield, restrained by the consciousness of his too recent misdemeanour and its punishment, remained discreetly in the background; but his brother Daniel (q.v.) assisted in drafting the articles of association. The Duke of Wellington approved the scheme, and Wakefield urged, in recognition of his interest, that the chief town of the settlement should be named after him. The serious illness of his daughter Nina (Priscilla) now took Wakefield to Lisbon, where to his intense grief she died on 12 Feb 1835. His personal life was wrapped up in the two children, and Nina had become his confidant in schemes and economic speculations which were beyond the comprehension of most young women. Wakefield brought back to England with him a Portuguese girl, Leocadia de Oliveira, who had helped to soothe the last days of his daughter. He educated her and brought her to New Zealand, where she married. On his return to England Wakefield found that changes had been made in the South Australian scheme which he considered fatal. He fell out with Gouger, and Torrens was unable to effect a reconciliation. The price fixed for the sale of land, 12s an acre, he considered too low. When he himself was unable to sell the land at that price, George Fife Angas came forward with a joint stock company which took the necessary area at 12s. Wakefield now withdrew from the South Australian scheme and turned his attention to New Zealand, Torrens continuing as chairman of the commissioners. In Jun 1836 Wakefield gave valuable evidence before the select committee on methods of disposing of land in the colonies. This evidence was published in 1841 for the government of Texas. The select committee recommended that the upset price should be a permanent principle of future colonial regulations. As a result of the evidence given by Wakefield at this inquiry the New Zealand Association was constituted at a meeting at his house on 22 May 1837. It soon announced its intention of settling New Zealand, and thus came into immediate conflict with the Church Missionary Society, which strongly opposed the foundation of a British colony in New Zealand. In a book published under the auspices of the Association in 1837, entitled The British Colonisation of New Zealand, Wakefield proposed making treaties with the native tribes for the cession of territory and all other necessary activities. Urged by the missionary societies, the Colonial Office, now under the strong control of Stephen as permanent under-secretary, dismissed the proposal (Jun 1837) because it involved the acquisition of sovereignty in New Zealand, which would inevitably issue in the conquest and extermination of the native race. The Secretary of State (Lord Glenelg) was, however, so impressed by accounts of lawlessness amongst whites in New Zealand that he informed Lord Durham that he would be willing to consent to the incorporation of a company by royal charter so long as the government had the right of veto over the personnel of the directorate and officials. Wakefield having assured him that the Association assumed no pecuniary risk and did not expect pecuniary gain, he said he would not oppose the bill (5 Feb 1838). Both the Church Missionary Society and the Wesleyan Missionary Society petitioned against the bill, and the missionary influence in Parliament and the country was so strong that the select committee of the House of Lords (at which Wakefield produced a Maori witness, Nayti) reported against it. The best way to further the civilisation of New Zealand, it recommended, was to support the existing missions there. Wakefield was in Canada at the time when the bill was being discussed in Parliament, and it was defeated by 92 votes to 32. Thus ended the Association's scheme of appointing commissioners in New Zealand and making treaties with the natives or exercising criminal jurisdiction. In 1836 Wakefield's friends made an effort to find him a seat in the House of Commons, and he actually issued an address to the electors of Birmingham strongly approving the reform bill, and hoping to see universal suffrage, the ballot, annual elections and three-year parliaments. Having withdrawn from his parliamentary ambitions, he took part in forming the New Zealand Association, and in the same year brought about the select committee on transportation, which warmly endorsed his principles. In Jan 1838 he accepted a position on Durham's staff for Canada. Buller was chief secretary, and Wakefield was invited to accompany the mission really to investigate the management of crown lands. But for the veto of the Colonial Office he would have been appointed commissioner of crown lands. In fact, Buller was commissioner, but Wakefield took charge of the land commission, the registry of titles and the commutation of feudal tenures. When he arrived in Canada in the middle of 1838 (some time after Durham), the rebellion of 1837 was still a recent memory and he had unique opportunities of discussing the grievances of the colonists. He failed to see the rebel Papineau, though he made a journey to Saratoga for that purpose, but he soon formed the opinions that the trouble in Canada was a racial war; that the French Canadians were a poor class and the country must be made English by every means. Durham had humanely dispensed with the trial of rebels in prison in favour of exiling to Bermuda eight of the leaders. His enemies in England seized on the fact that Bermuda was outside his jurisdiction and the government weakly disallowed the ordinance. Disgusted at this desertion of him after a promise of full support, he resigned (25 Sep). Wakefield defended Durham with the greatest energy. Fearing that his report would be mutilated by the government to cover its own faults, he disregarded official propriety and communicated the greater part of it to The Times before Parliament received it. The substance of the Report on the Affairs of British North America (which was addressed to Glenelg on 31 Jan 1839) appeared in The Times on 8 Feb. It proposed the reunion of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada as a prelude to the inauguration of responsible government. Durham's enemies refused him credit for the report ('Wakefield thought it, Buller wrote it, and Durham signed it'), but the refusal was malevolent. Durham, an extremely able man, both thought and wrote. Wakefield was responsible for the appendix on land-reform, where Durham was his pupil; but Wakefield at that time had no comprehension of the principle of responsible government, such as both Durham and Buller displayed; and the statement of this principle was in fact the essence of the report. Wakefield later appropriated it as part of his 'system.' His land-policy was divorced from Canadian reality. On his return to England late in 1838 Wakefield found a new impetus to the New Zealand project in the scheme of de Thierry (q.v.) Though the proposal, as communicated by George F. Angas, envisaged a sovereignty in de Thierry's own person, there was already a widespread fear of French designs in New Zealand. When Lord Glenelg went out of office (Feb 1839) he left a minute recommending that action be taken. His successor (Lord Normanby) refusing to move, the New Zealand Company hastened its plans, selected Colonel W. H. Wakefield as leader of the proposed settlement in New Zealand (28 Mar 1839), and arranged for the despatch of the expeditionary ship, the Tory. She left the river on 25 Apr rather hurriedly, lest the government should intervene. When Normanby refused letters of introduction to the governors of New South Wales and Tasmania Wakefield feared some more definite sign of disapproval. There is a legend, lacking proof, that he hastened to Plymouth to despatch the ship. That done, he established himself in the Company's headquarters in Broad street buildings, and throughout the year was the directing spirit in all the negotiations with the Colonial Office. In Feb 1840 Captain Hobson concluded the Treaty of Waitangi and took office as Lieutenant-governor of New Zealand. Wakefield became a director of the Company on 9 Apr 1840, and a few weeks later he persuaded the board to adopt the name 'Wellington' for the first town in recognition of the Duke's assistance. He arranged a great meeting of shipowners, bankers and merchants of the city of London to urge the Government to take measures to preserve the 'long established sovereignty of the British crown in New Zealand.' Before the select committee of the House of Lords Wakefield gave evidence, the value of which was acknowledged by the chairman (Lord Eliot) at a public dinner at Plymouth on 5 Nov. In Sep the directors, on his advice, applied to Lord John Russell for a charter. Stephen agreed, and Wakefield and Lord Petre were appointed to negotiate with Russell as to the terms. On 26 Oct Russell agreed to issue a charter for 40 years, with increased capital and more powers, and the Company was to receive four acres of land in the Colony for every pound of expenditure incurred in colonising. The charter was dated 12 Feb 1841. In Dec 1841 Wakefield again visited Canada to look after an interest which he had acquired in a land company. While there he was elected (Nov 1842) to represent in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada the French-speaking county of Beauharnois, the electors of which appreciated what he had done to secure for them a share in their administration. The governor, Sir Charles Bagot, regarded him as 'a vindictive, as well as subtle serpent,' and was careful to have nothing to do with him; but his confidential advice to Bagot's successor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, in Metcalfe's conflict with ministers on the subject of responsible government, earned for him the hatred of the Canadian Radicals and the title of 'arch-traitor.' His perception in Canadian politics was nevertheless sometimes shrewd, though in the responsible government controversy he was clearly fighting against the future. Metcalfe had declined to consult his ministers in the making of appointments. Wakefield supported the governor, for reasons which he set forth in his pamphlet, A View of Sir Charles Metcalfe's Government of Canada, by a Member of the Provincial Parliament. He came back to England (1844) to find the Company once more at war with the Colonial Office over the interpretation of the agreement as regards the allocation of grants of land. A select committee appointed by the House of Commons upheld the Company on every point except its 'highly irregular and improper conduct' in sending out settlers in defiance of the authority of the crown. Lord Stanley (the Secretary of State) would not, however, accept the Company's contention that the Maori possessed only a qualified dominion in New Zealand. In Mar and Jun 1845 there were stormy debates in Parliament. Earl Grey became Secretary of State in Jun 1846. Wakefield had a discouraging interview with him at Buller's house in Jul, and a week or two later suffered an apoplectic stroke as the result of overwork and excitement (15 Aug 1846). This placed him hors de combat for some years, though he continued to attend meetings. In May 1847 Buller made an agreement with Grey under which the Company should receive a new loan and come under government control. Wakefield protested against government control, but was in no state of health to fight, and retired to undergo the water cure at Great Malvern. His enthusiasm in colonisation was revived by the Church of England proposal to settle a colony in New Zealand, and by a meeting with John Robert Godley (q.v.), whom he importuned to lend his influence to the scheme. Godley acceded (30 Nov 1847), and Wakefield transferred to him sufficient stock (£500) to qualify him as a director. The site proposed for the settlement was Wairarapa. Wakefield was now writing topics regularly for the Spectator. Late in 1848 he retired to France (with A. J. Allom, q.v.) to finish his book on the Art of Colonisation, in which he hoped to establish his claim as the author of the school of thought now almost triumphant. The book was published in Feb 1849. He resigned from the directorate of the Company. Earl Grey about this time submitted to Durham a scheme for a colony in Canada, which Wakefield criticised and showed to be impracticable. Early in 1849 he drew up the heads of the articles of association for the Canterbury settlement, which being done, he wrote to F. D. Bell (his kinsman) in New Zealand to say that he was now determined to proceed thither, since his work in England was finished. He arranged for the publication of the Canterbury Papers and, the land sales being insufficient to justify proceeding, he arranged a personal guarantee of £15,000 by Lord Lyttelton, Sir John Simeon, Lord Richard Cavendish and himself. Having worked with his accustomed zeal until the first four ships of the Canterbury settlement had passed down the Channel, he then turned to the New Zealand constitution. On 8 Feb 1850 Lord John Russell proposed in parliament that provision be made for the better government of her Majesty's Australian colonies. The bill was passed on 13 May, a similar one being promised for New Zealand in the following year. In the drafting of the New Zealand constitution some share was taken by Wakefield, Fox, Weld, Sewell, Adderley (afterwards Lord Norton) and Lyttelton. In 1851 it was impossible to bring in the bill, but it came in 1852. In Jun Wakefield, fearing its destruction by the opposition of Molesworth, petitioned both houses in favour of it. The act received the royal assent on 30 Jun. Wakefield sailed for New Zealand in the Minerva in Oct 1852, arriving in Lyttelton on 2 Feb 1853. He became involved almost immediately in a controversy with Governor Grey over his land regulations of 4 Mar 1853, in which the price was fixed at 10s per acre, reducible to 5s in cases where the land was not easily accessible. Wakefield wrote home characteristically that 'he worked the newspapers and went to law with the Governor.' Thereafter he was at odds with Grey over alterations in the constitution and his delay in having Parliament constituted, and later in summoning the General Assembly to meet. Wakefield was elected a member of Parliament for Hutt (19 Aug 1853) and of the Wellington Provincial Council, also for Hutt (5 Sep), defeating by a very large majority candidates who supported the policy of Grey. Grey left the Colony on 31 Dec 1853. The Provincial Council met on 28 Oct 1853 and, having elected Clifford to be Speaker, had good reason to approve its choice. So that when Parliament assembled seven months later Wakefield had already been in consultation with other members and persuaded them to elect Charles Clifford (q.v.), though a Catholic, to the chair of the House of Representatives. Colonel Wynyard, the administrator, was inexperienced and lacking in initiative, and Wakefield soon appeared as the Machiavelli of Parliament. The House had no sooner shaken down to its task when he moved (2 Jun 1854) to establish full responsible government. Swainson (the Attorney-general) ruled that the Governor had no power to introduce the responsible system, but Wakefield had won his point and was prepared to await developments. He wrote Home that he was happy in having the full realisation of all he had hoped and longed for. Friction occurred between the responsible ministers and the permanent officials who sat with them in the executive and whom, according to Wakefield's ruling, the Governor had no power to dismiss since they were appointed by the crown. Wynyard therefore accepted the resignation of ministers and consulted Wakefield, who once more appeared as the enemy of the system he had always advocated. Provoked by his rather tactless conduct, the House passed a resolution (proposed by one of the executive, FitzGerald) protesting against the acceptance of advice from a private member of Parliament. On the intimation that Wynyard intended to prorogue Parliament (also on the advice of Wakefield), the House passed a resolution demanding the full grant of responsible government and the removal of Wakefield from his position as unofficial adviser. Wakefield's supporters walked out of the chamber in the hope of preventing the motion being carried. He withdrew then from his unique position, and a fortnight later Parliament met and passed supply for a ministry led by T. S. Forsaith (q.v.), with Travers, Macandrew and E. J. Wakefield as colleagues. On 8 Dec the Secretary of State approved the grant of responsible government. Wakefield retired at the general election (1855). He was re-elected to the Provincial Council, but attended less frequently owing to failing health. His most noteworthy intervention in this period was at the election of 1857, when his son (E. J. Wakefield) made a determined attempt to capture the provincial government. Thereafter he lived in enforced retirement at his home in Wellington, his principal companion in the evening of his life being Alice, daughter of his brother Daniel, and later the wife of Harold Freeman. He died on 16 May 1862, and was buried in the Sydney street cemetery. E. Irving Carlyle, in the Dictionary of National Biography, says: "The importance of Wakefield's achievements in colonial matters can hardly be overestimated. The tangible fruits of his labours are the least part of their result, for all subsequent colonial development has followed the direction of his thought. He brought to the subject for the first time the mind of a philosopher and statesman, equally fitted for framing a comprehensive theory and for directing its working in practical detail. The great flaw in his character was lack of scruple in selecting the means for attaining his ends. This imperfection of character brought about serious disaster in his private affairs, and in his public life it prevented even his most devoted supporters from giving him their implicit confidence." Wakefield's publications include: Swing Unmasked, or the Causes of Rural Incendiarism (1831), The Hangman and the Judge (1833), Popular Politics (1837). G.B.O.P. 1836-45; N.Z.P.D. 1854-62; N.Z. Comy reports; Wakefield Letters in Canterbury Museum; N.Z.C., pass. (including many manuscript and draft letters in Wakefield's hand); E. J. Wakefield, Adventure; Harrop, Wakefield; Wakefield, New Zealand (p); Wakelin; O'Connor (p); Gisborne; Saunders; Rusden; E.G. Wakefield, op. cit.; Egerton; Sherrin and Wallace; Garnett (p); Godley, Letters; Lovat; J. Collier (introd. The Art of Colonisation, 1914); R. C. Mills, The Colonisation of Australia (1915); John Morley, Life of William Ewart Gladstone (1904); Hight and Bamford; Keith; Scholefield, Hobson; Ward (p); A. J. Harrop in The Press, Oct-Nov 1928; Stuart J. Reid; Lucas; Chester W. New, Lord Durham; Chester Martin, Empire and Commonwealth; W. P. Morrall, Colonial Policy of Peel and Russell; Fisher's Colonial Magazine, Jul 1844; Wellington Independent, 20 May 1862; Wellington Spectator, 5 Jan, 23 Jul 1853; Otago Daily Times, 30 Dec 1931; The Press, 1 May 1909, 12 Dec 1925. Portrait: Bust by Joseph Durham, R.A., in Colonial Office (replica in Parliament House, Wellington); portrait by E. J. Collins and Richard Ai in Provincial Hall, Christchurch. | Volume 2, page 225 |
EDWARD WAKEFIELD (q.v.) was a son. Another son, OLIVER, became Under-secretary for Mines. He died in Mar 1884.
D.N.B.; E. Wakefield, Stafford; Harrop, Wakefield; O'Connor; Deans; Lyttelton Times, 8, 22 Jul, 29 Aug 1854, 24, 27 Dec 1875.
Volume 2, page 225WAKEFIELD, EDWARD (1845-1924) was born in Tasmania, the son of Felix Wakefield (q.v.), and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1851, spent a year in Canterbury and then went to England. He was educated in France and at King's College, London, and in 1863 returned to New Zealand and joined the staff of the Nelson Examiner (then edited by J.C. Richmond). He entered the civil service (1865), became private secretary to Stafford (1866) and was for four years secretary to the cabinet. After this extended period of secretarial duty, he joined the Customs department at Dunedin (1869) and served there and in Auckland.
In 1874, at the suggestion of Stafford, he resigned to become editor of the Timaru Herald. During 10 years in that position he successfully advocated the creation of a modern port for South Canterbury by the construction of a breakwater. He was at the same time leader writer for the Otago Daily Times, the New Zealand Times and The Press. Wakefield was M.H.R. for Geraldine (1875-81). Being defeated there, he contested Inangahua against E. Shaw (q.v.) in 1883. In 1884 he was elected unopposed for Selwyn and was for one week Colonial Secretary in the Atkinson Government (1884). Retiring from politics in 1887, he became editor of the Evening Press (Wellington). In 1890 he went to London and was afterwards appointed agent in New York of the British and United States Agency, but had to close it up in view of the financial stringency (1890). Thereafter he worked for the New Zealand press in London.
Wakefield published in 1889 New Zealand after Fifty Years. In his later years, when he suffered from blindness, he was admitted to the Carthusian foundation and lived in the Charterhouse, in recognition of his interest in Empire affairs. Just before his death (which occurred on 10 Aug 1924) he contributed to the Nineteenth Century an article on his friendship with Dickens and he published privately in 1923 a brochure on Sir Edward Stafford.
N.Z.P.D., 2 Jun 1925; E. Wakefield, op. cit.; United Empire, 1924, p. 630 (p); Timaru Herald, 15 Aug 1924.
Volume 2, page 224WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON (1796-1862) was the son of Edward Wakefield, who at the time of his birth was a farmer in Essex, but afterwards became a land agent in London; achieved fame as an educationalist and philanthropist and was the author of An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political (1812). Through his mother, Priscilla Bell, he was descended from the Quaker family of Robert Barclay, the apologist, and he was thus related to F. D. Bell (q.v.). Owing to the straitened circumstances of his father, Edward and several of his brothers lived for part of their childhood with their grandmother at Tottenham. She was a noted philanthropist. The boys went first to Haigh's school. At that early age Edward showed a perverseness and intractability which increased in his youth and was the cause of his leaving each of the schools to which he was sent. He left Haigh's in Dec 1807 for Westminster, where he had many fights and difficulties, and eventually refused to go back. Thence to the High School at Edinburgh, which he left in 1811, stubbornly refusing to go back.
In 1813 he was admitted at Gray's Inn, but in the following year he became private secretary to the Hon William Noel Hill, son of Lord Berwick, and then envoy to the court of Turin. He travelled a good deal as a king's messenger and saw much of fashionable life in Italy and Paris. Having made the acquaintance of Eliza Susan Pattle, the heiress of a Canton merchant, Thomas Charles Pattle (deceased), they eloped and were married at Edinburgh (1816). The mother and uncles of the girl were won over, and through the influence of Hill the Lord Chancellor not only sanctioned the marriage, but made the most liberal settlement on Wakefield. He was to receive from £1,500 to £2,000 a year, independent of any private property of his own and subject to no control, the allowance to be increased by £2,000 a year at the death of his mother-in-law. The couple went to Genoa on a diplomatic mission, and then back to Turin. Wakefield became secretary to the legation, where his brother William was also employed. There Wakefield's first child, Susan Priscilla, was born (1817). The mother died on 5 Jul 1820, after the birth of the second child, Edward Jerningham.
Meanwhile Wakefield had been employed as attache and secretary-general at the embassy in Paris, where they saw much of fashionable life. In 1824 his father married Frances, the daughter of the Rev Dr Davies, headmaster of the Macclesfield Grammar School. Wakefield and his brother visited this family at Macclesfield, and through them became aware of the existence of a wealthy heiress, Ellen, the daughter of William Turner, a manufacturer, of Shrigley, Cheshire, and sheriff of the county of Yorkshire. In Mar 1826 Edward and William Wakefield, by means of a ruse, persuaded the girl to leave the school and took her to Gretna Green, where Edward went through a form of marriage with her. He then took his wife to London, Dover and Calais, where they were overtaken by the girl's uncles and police agents. William had already been arrested in England, and Wakefield offered to return to face the charge of abduction. They were tried at the Lancaster assizes, their stepmother, Frances Wakefield, and the servant, Thevenot, being also indicted; and were found guilty. On 14 May 1827 Edward and William were each sentenced to three years imprisonment, the former at Newgate and the latter at Lancaster. Frances was not sentenced. A bill was passed by Parliament to annul the marriage, which had not been consummated.
After his transfer to Newgate prison Wakefield was permitted to see his children and to take an active part in their education. In his prison surroundings he saw much of the seamy side of life, and became interested in trying to reform aspects which seemed unnecessarily harsh. In 1830 he wrote an essay, The Condemned Sermon (which was published in Popular Politics in 1837), and in 1831 he wrote Facts Relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis. The public were shocked by some of his disclosures, and certain reforms which he suggested were carried into effect. It was here, too, that Wakefield entered upon that close study of the subject of colonisation which was to issue in a masterly thesis a few years later. He investigated the Swan river failure, which he was convinced was due to the dispersal of the settlers over too wide an area by the granting of vast estates to wealthy emigrants in the neighbourhood of the settlement. From this he developed his theory that land should be sold at too high a price to enable the labourers too readily to become landowners, thus depriving the land of its due supply of labour. He elaborated his system in the sketch of a proposed colony which appeared in a series of articles in the Morning Chronicle (Aug-Oct 1829). In the same year was published his book, A Letter from Sydney, together with an Outline of a System of Colonisation. In this book (edited by Robert Gouger) he insisted that all land in the colony should be sold, and that there should be a tax on rents of lands already sold and on future sales to form an emigration fund, which should be applied to the introduction of a due proportion of labourers for the needs of the settlement. He now abandoned his fixed price of £2 per acre for land, and suggested that the 'sufficient price' must be fixed according to the conditions of each settlement. In Apr 1830 he published (in the Spectator) 'The Cure and Prevention of Pauperism by means of Systematic Colonisation.' Shortly after his release (which took place in May) he formed the National Colonisation Society, which consisted of a small select band of thinkers, and absorbed Gouger's Emigration Society. The first pamphlet, A Statement of the Principles and Objects of the Proposed National Society for the Cure and Prevention of Pauperism by Means of Systematic Colonisation, appeared in 1830. In 1831 Lord Goderich became Secretary of State for the Colonies (with Lord Howick as Under-secretary), and in regulations published shortly afterwards it was provided that henceforth all land in New South Wales should be sold at not less than 5s per acre. In 1831 Gouger and Wakefield brought forward the South Australia project and obtained the approval of Howick, with the proviso that the governor of the settlement should be appointed by the government and not by the chartered company. Goderich, however, did not approve the scheme (30 May 1832). In 1833, when Wakefield published his England and America; a Comparison of the Social and Political State of both Nations, the Society had 42 members, including Charles Buller, John Stuart Mill, John Hutt, Colonel R. Torrens, Sir F. Burdett, and Sir J. C. Hobhouse. It was revitalised by this publication. At the end of the year the South Australian Association was formed, with Buller, Torrens and Roebuck on the committee. Wakefield, restrained by the consciousness of his too recent misdemeanour and its punishment, remained discreetly in the background; but his brother Daniel (q.v.) assisted in drafting the articles of association. The Duke of Wellington approved the scheme, and Wakefield urged, in recognition of his interest, that the chief town of the settlement should be named after him.
The serious illness of his daughter Nina (Priscilla) now took Wakefield to Lisbon, where to his intense grief she died on 12 Feb 1835. His personal life was wrapped up in the two children, and Nina had become his confidant in schemes and economic speculations which were beyond the comprehension of most young women. Wakefield brought back to England with him a Portuguese girl, Leocadia de Oliveira, who had helped to soothe the last days of his daughter. He educated her and brought her to New Zealand, where she married. On his return to England Wakefield found that changes had been made in the South Australian scheme which he considered fatal. He fell out with Gouger, and Torrens was unable to effect a reconciliation. The price fixed for the sale of land, 12s an acre, he considered too low. When he himself was unable to sell the land at that price, George Fife Angas came forward with a joint stock company which took the necessary area at 12s. Wakefield now withdrew from the South Australian scheme and turned his attention to New Zealand, Torrens continuing as chairman of the commissioners. In Jun 1836 Wakefield gave valuable evidence before the select committee on methods of disposing of land in the colonies. This evidence was published in 1841 for the government of Texas. The select committee recommended that the upset price should be a permanent principle of future colonial regulations. As a result of the evidence given by Wakefield at this inquiry the New Zealand Association was constituted at a meeting at his house on 22 May 1837. It soon announced its intention of settling New Zealand, and thus came into immediate conflict with the Church Missionary Society, which strongly opposed the foundation of a British colony in New Zealand. In a book published under the auspices of the Association in 1837, entitled The British Colonisation of New Zealand, Wakefield proposed making treaties with the native tribes for the cession of territory and all other necessary activities. Urged by the missionary societies, the Colonial Office, now under the strong control of Stephen as permanent under-secretary, dismissed the proposal (Jun 1837) because it involved the acquisition of sovereignty in New Zealand, which would inevitably issue in the conquest and extermination of the native race. The Secretary of State (Lord Glenelg) was, however, so impressed by accounts of lawlessness amongst whites in New Zealand that he informed Lord Durham that he would be willing to consent to the incorporation of a company by royal charter so long as the government had the right of veto over the personnel of the directorate and officials. Wakefield having assured him that the Association assumed no pecuniary risk and did not expect pecuniary gain, he said he would not oppose the bill (5 Feb 1838). Both the Church Missionary Society and the Wesleyan Missionary Society petitioned against the bill, and the missionary influence in Parliament and the country was so strong that the select committee of the House of Lords (at which Wakefield produced a Maori witness, Nayti) reported against it. The best way to further the civilisation of New Zealand, it recommended, was to support the existing missions there. Wakefield was in Canada at the time when the bill was being discussed in Parliament, and it was defeated by 92 votes to 32. Thus ended the Association's scheme of appointing commissioners in New Zealand and making treaties with the natives or exercising criminal jurisdiction. In 1836 Wakefield's friends made an effort to find him a seat in the House of Commons, and he actually issued an address to the electors of Birmingham strongly approving the reform bill, and hoping to see universal suffrage, the ballot, annual elections and three-year parliaments.
Having withdrawn from his parliamentary ambitions, he took part in forming the New Zealand Association, and in the same year brought about the select committee on transportation, which warmly endorsed his principles.
In Jan 1838 he accepted a position on Durham's staff for Canada. Buller was chief secretary, and Wakefield was invited to accompany the mission really to investigate the management of crown lands. But for the veto of the Colonial Office he would have been appointed commissioner of crown lands. In fact, Buller was commissioner, but Wakefield took charge of the land commission, the registry of titles and the commutation of feudal tenures. When he arrived in Canada in the middle of 1838 (some time after Durham), the rebellion of 1837 was still a recent memory and he had unique opportunities of discussing the grievances of the colonists. He failed to see the rebel Papineau, though he made a journey to Saratoga for that purpose, but he soon formed the opinions that the trouble in Canada was a racial war; that the French Canadians were a poor class and the country must be made English by every means. Durham had humanely dispensed with the trial of rebels in prison in favour of exiling to Bermuda eight of the leaders. His enemies in England seized on the fact that Bermuda was outside his jurisdiction and the government weakly disallowed the ordinance. Disgusted at this desertion of him after a promise of full support, he resigned (25 Sep). Wakefield defended Durham with the greatest energy. Fearing that his report would be mutilated by the government to cover its own faults, he disregarded official propriety and communicated the greater part of it to The Times before Parliament received it. The substance of the Report on the Affairs of British North America (which was addressed to Glenelg on 31 Jan 1839) appeared in The Times on 8 Feb. It proposed the reunion of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada as a prelude to the inauguration of responsible government. Durham's enemies refused him credit for the report ('Wakefield thought it, Buller wrote it, and Durham signed it'), but the refusal was malevolent. Durham, an extremely able man, both thought and wrote. Wakefield was responsible for the appendix on land-reform, where Durham was his pupil; but Wakefield at that time had no comprehension of the principle of responsible government, such as both Durham and Buller displayed; and the statement of this principle was in fact the essence of the report. Wakefield later appropriated it as part of his 'system.' His land-policy was divorced from Canadian reality.
On his return to England late in 1838 Wakefield found a new impetus to the New Zealand project in the scheme of de Thierry (q.v.) Though the proposal, as communicated by George F. Angas, envisaged a sovereignty in de Thierry's own person, there was already a widespread fear of French designs in New Zealand. When Lord Glenelg went out of office (Feb 1839) he left a minute recommending that action be taken. His successor (Lord Normanby) refusing to move, the New Zealand Company hastened its plans, selected Colonel W. H. Wakefield as leader of the proposed settlement in New Zealand (28 Mar 1839), and arranged for the despatch of the expeditionary ship, the Tory. She left the river on 25 Apr rather hurriedly, lest the government should intervene. When Normanby refused letters of introduction to the governors of New South Wales and Tasmania Wakefield feared some more definite sign of disapproval. There is a legend, lacking proof, that he hastened to Plymouth to despatch the ship. That done, he established himself in the Company's headquarters in Broad street buildings, and throughout the year was the directing spirit in all the negotiations with the Colonial Office. In Feb 1840 Captain Hobson concluded the Treaty of Waitangi and took office as Lieutenant-governor of New Zealand.
Wakefield became a director of the Company on 9 Apr 1840, and a few weeks later he persuaded the board to adopt the name 'Wellington' for the first town in recognition of the Duke's assistance. He arranged a great meeting of shipowners, bankers and merchants of the city of London to urge the Government to take measures to preserve the 'long established sovereignty of the British crown in New Zealand.' Before the select committee of the House of Lords Wakefield gave evidence, the value of which was acknowledged by the chairman (Lord Eliot) at a public dinner at Plymouth on 5 Nov. In Sep the directors, on his advice, applied to Lord John Russell for a charter. Stephen agreed, and Wakefield and Lord Petre were appointed to negotiate with Russell as to the terms. On 26 Oct Russell agreed to issue a charter for 40 years, with increased capital and more powers, and the Company was to receive four acres of land in the Colony for every pound of expenditure incurred in colonising. The charter was dated 12 Feb 1841. In Dec 1841 Wakefield again visited Canada to look after an interest which he had acquired in a land company. While there he was elected (Nov 1842) to represent in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada the French-speaking county of Beauharnois, the electors of which appreciated what he had done to secure for them a share in their administration. The governor, Sir Charles Bagot, regarded him as 'a vindictive, as well as subtle serpent,' and was careful to have nothing to do with him; but his confidential advice to Bagot's successor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, in Metcalfe's conflict with ministers on the subject of responsible government, earned for him the hatred of the Canadian Radicals and the title of 'arch-traitor.' His perception in Canadian politics was nevertheless sometimes shrewd, though in the responsible government controversy he was clearly fighting against the future. Metcalfe had declined to consult his ministers in the making of appointments. Wakefield supported the governor, for reasons which he set forth in his pamphlet, A View of Sir Charles Metcalfe's Government of Canada, by a Member of the Provincial Parliament. He came back to England (1844) to find the Company once more at war with the Colonial Office over the interpretation of the agreement as regards the allocation of grants of land. A select committee appointed by the House of Commons upheld the Company on every point except its 'highly irregular and improper conduct' in sending out settlers in defiance of the authority of the crown. Lord Stanley (the Secretary of State) would not, however, accept the Company's contention that the Maori possessed only a qualified dominion in New Zealand. In Mar and Jun 1845 there were stormy debates in Parliament. Earl Grey became Secretary of State in Jun 1846. Wakefield had a discouraging interview with him at Buller's house in Jul, and a week or two later suffered an apoplectic stroke as the result of overwork and excitement (15 Aug 1846). This placed him hors de combat for some years, though he continued to attend meetings. In May 1847 Buller made an agreement with Grey under which the Company should receive a new loan and come under government control. Wakefield protested against government control, but was in no state of health to fight, and retired to undergo the water cure at Great Malvern. His enthusiasm in colonisation was revived by the Church of England proposal to settle a colony in New Zealand, and by a meeting with John Robert Godley (q.v.), whom he importuned to lend his influence to the scheme. Godley acceded (30 Nov 1847), and Wakefield transferred to him sufficient stock (£500) to qualify him as a director. The site proposed for the settlement was Wairarapa.
Wakefield was now writing topics regularly for the Spectator. Late in 1848 he retired to France (with A. J. Allom, q.v.) to finish his book on the Art of Colonisation, in which he hoped to establish his claim as the author of the school of thought now almost triumphant. The book was published in Feb 1849. He resigned from the directorate of the Company. Earl Grey about this time submitted to Durham a scheme for a colony in Canada, which Wakefield criticised and showed to be impracticable. Early in 1849 he drew up the heads of the articles of association for the Canterbury settlement, which being done, he wrote to F. D. Bell (his kinsman) in New Zealand to say that he was now determined to proceed thither, since his work in England was finished. He arranged for the publication of the Canterbury Papers and, the land sales being insufficient to justify proceeding, he arranged a personal guarantee of £15,000 by Lord Lyttelton, Sir John Simeon, Lord Richard Cavendish and himself. Having worked with his accustomed zeal until the first four ships of the Canterbury settlement had passed down the Channel, he then turned to the New Zealand constitution. On 8 Feb 1850 Lord John Russell proposed in parliament that provision be made for the better government of her Majesty's Australian colonies. The bill was passed on 13 May, a similar one being promised for New Zealand in the following year. In the drafting of the New Zealand constitution some share was taken by Wakefield, Fox, Weld, Sewell, Adderley (afterwards Lord Norton) and Lyttelton. In 1851 it was impossible to bring in the bill, but it came in 1852. In Jun Wakefield, fearing its destruction by the opposition of Molesworth, petitioned both houses in favour of it.
The act received the royal assent on 30 Jun. Wakefield sailed for New Zealand in the Minerva in Oct 1852, arriving in Lyttelton on 2 Feb 1853. He became involved almost immediately in a controversy with Governor Grey over his land regulations of 4 Mar 1853, in which the price was fixed at 10s per acre, reducible to 5s in cases where the land was not easily accessible. Wakefield wrote home characteristically that 'he worked the newspapers and went to law with the Governor.' Thereafter he was at odds with Grey over alterations in the constitution and his delay in having Parliament constituted, and later in summoning the General Assembly to meet. Wakefield was elected a member of Parliament for Hutt (19 Aug 1853) and of the Wellington Provincial Council, also for Hutt (5 Sep), defeating by a very large majority candidates who supported the policy of Grey. Grey left the Colony on 31 Dec 1853. The Provincial Council met on 28 Oct 1853 and, having elected Clifford to be Speaker, had good reason to approve its choice. So that when Parliament assembled seven months later Wakefield had already been in consultation with other members and persuaded them to elect Charles Clifford (q.v.), though a Catholic, to the chair of the House of Representatives.
Colonel Wynyard, the administrator, was inexperienced and lacking in initiative, and Wakefield soon appeared as the Machiavelli of Parliament. The House had no sooner shaken down to its task when he moved (2 Jun 1854) to establish full responsible government. Swainson (the Attorney-general) ruled that the Governor had no power to introduce the responsible system, but Wakefield had won his point and was prepared to await developments. He wrote Home that he was happy in having the full realisation of all he had hoped and longed for. Friction occurred between the responsible ministers and the permanent officials who sat with them in the executive and whom, according to Wakefield's ruling, the Governor had no power to dismiss since they were appointed by the crown. Wynyard therefore accepted the resignation of ministers and consulted Wakefield, who once more appeared as the enemy of the system he had always advocated. Provoked by his rather tactless conduct, the House passed a resolution (proposed by one of the executive, FitzGerald) protesting against the acceptance of advice from a private member of Parliament. On the intimation that Wynyard intended to prorogue Parliament (also on the advice of Wakefield), the House passed a resolution demanding the full grant of responsible government and the removal of Wakefield from his position as unofficial adviser. Wakefield's supporters walked out of the chamber in the hope of preventing the motion being carried. He withdrew then from his unique position, and a fortnight later Parliament met and passed supply for a ministry led by T. S. Forsaith (q.v.), with Travers, Macandrew and E. J. Wakefield as colleagues.
On 8 Dec the Secretary of State approved the grant of responsible government. Wakefield retired at the general election (1855). He was re-elected to the Provincial Council, but attended less frequently owing to failing health. His most noteworthy intervention in this period was at the election of 1857, when his son (E. J. Wakefield) made a determined attempt to capture the provincial government. Thereafter he lived in enforced retirement at his home in Wellington, his principal companion in the evening of his life being Alice, daughter of his brother Daniel, and later the wife of Harold Freeman. He died on 16 May 1862, and was buried in the Sydney street cemetery.
E. Irving Carlyle, in the Dictionary of National Biography, says: "The importance of Wakefield's achievements in colonial matters can hardly be overestimated. The tangible fruits of his labours are the least part of their result, for all subsequent colonial development has followed the direction of his thought. He brought to the subject for the first time the mind of a philosopher and statesman, equally fitted for framing a comprehensive theory and for directing its working in practical detail. The great flaw in his character was lack of scruple in selecting the means for attaining his ends. This imperfection of character brought about serious disaster in his private affairs, and in his public life it prevented even his most devoted supporters from giving him their implicit confidence."
Wakefield's publications include: Swing Unmasked, or the Causes of Rural Incendiarism (1831), The Hangman and the Judge (1833), Popular Politics (1837).
G.B.O.P. 1836-45; N.Z.P.D. 1854-62; N.Z. Comy reports; Wakefield Letters in Canterbury Museum; N.Z.C., pass. (including many manuscript and draft letters in Wakefield's hand); E. J. Wakefield, Adventure; Harrop, Wakefield; Wakefield, New Zealand (p); Wakelin; O'Connor (p); Gisborne; Saunders; Rusden; E.G. Wakefield, op. cit.; Egerton; Sherrin and Wallace; Garnett (p); Godley, Letters; Lovat; J. Collier (introd. The Art of Colonisation, 1914); R. C. Mills, The Colonisation of Australia (1915); John Morley, Life of William Ewart Gladstone (1904); Hight and Bamford; Keith; Scholefield, Hobson; Ward (p); A. J. Harrop in The Press, Oct-Nov 1928; Stuart J. Reid; Lucas; Chester W. New, Lord Durham; Chester Martin, Empire and Commonwealth; W. P. Morrall, Colonial Policy of Peel and Russell; Fisher's Colonial Magazine, Jul 1844; Wellington Independent, 20 May 1862; Wellington Spectator, 5 Jan, 23 Jul 1853; Otago Daily Times, 30 Dec 1931; The Press, 1 May 1909, 12 Dec 1925.
Portrait: Bust by Joseph Durham, R.A., in Colonial Office (replica in Parliament House, Wellington); portrait by E. J. Collins and Richard Ai in Provincial Hall, Christchurch.
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| Name | Born | Died | Cemetery | Region |
| Edward Wakefield | 1875 🔍 | 18 Feb 1950 🔍 📰 | Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium | Hawke's Bay |
| Edward Wakefield | 18 Feb 1950 🔍 📰 | Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium | Hawke's Bay | |
| Edward George Wakefield | 30 Nov 1977 🔍 📰 | Havelock North Cemetery | Hawke's Bay | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 20 Mar 1796 🔍 | 16 May 1862 🔍 📰 | Bolton Street Cemetery and Memorial Park | Wellington |
| Edward Jerningham Wakefield | 1820 🔍 | 3 Mar 1879 🔍 📰 | Pioneer Park Memorial | Canterbury |
| Edward Waikato Wakefield | 5 Jun 1909 🔍 | 5 Sep 1989 🔍 📰 | Taihape Cemetery | Manawatu-Wanganui |
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| Name | Date | Record Type |
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| WAKEFIELD, Davies Edward 🔍 | 06 Oct 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Davies Edward 🔍 | 07 Oct 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Davies Edward 🔍 | 08 Oct 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Davies Edward 🔍 | 09 Oct 2006 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward 🔍 | 23 Feb 1950 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward 🔍 | Sep 2022 | NZ Genealogist |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward George 🔍 | 20 Dec 1977 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon 🔍 | 12 Aug 1862 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon 🔍 | Aug 2020 | NZ Genealogist |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon 🔍 | Feb 2021 | NZ Genealogist |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward J 🔍 | 15 Sep 1879 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward John 🔍 | 1939 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward John 🔍 | 16 Jun 1939 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Morden 🔍 | 1924 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Morden 🔍 | 28 Jul 1924 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Edward Roger 🔍 | 01 Apr 1946 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Frank Edward 🔍 | 1955 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Frank Edward 🔍 | 03 May 1955 | NZ Probates |
| WAKEFIELD, Gregory Edward (Greg) 🔍 | 10 Sep 1999 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Gregory Edward (Greg) 🔍 | 11 Sep 1999 | NZ Herald Deaths |
| WAKEFIELD, Timaru George Edward 🔍 | Auckland War Memorial Museum - Cenotaph |
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield
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| Name | Born (approx.) | Died | Age | Type | Buried/Cremated | Plot | Cemetery | Region |
| Edward George Wakefield | 1905 | 2 Dec 1977 🔍 📰 | 72 | Burial | C/#/4 | Havelock North Cemetery | Hawke's Bay Region | |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 1796 | 16 May 1862 🔍 📰 | 66 | Burial | 16 May 1862 📰 | C of E/33/17 | Bolton Street Cemetery | Wellington Region |
| Edward John Wakefield | 1867 | 25 May 1939 🔍 📰 | 72 | Burial | 27 May 1939 📰 | Block E/50/064 | Purewa Cemetery | Auckland Region |
| Edward Wakefield | 1875 | 18 Feb 1950 🔍 📰 | 75 | Burial | 20 Feb 1950 📰 | D/#/93 | Hastings Cemetery | Hawke's Bay Region |
| Edward Wakefield | Burial | 29 Jun 1942 📰 | *Public 2/H/22 | Karori Cemetery | Wellington Region |
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| Name | Description | Image |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | UK criminal & New Zealand politician (1796-1862) |  |
| Jerningham Wakefield | New Zealand politician (1820-1879) |  |
| Edward Wakefield | New Zealand politician (1845-1924) |  |
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| Name | Born | Died | Mother | Father | Spouse |
| Edward Gibbon Wakefield | 1796 | 1862 | Susanna Crash | Edward Wakefield | Eliza Anne Frances Pattle |
| Edward Wakefield | 1770 | Priscilla ? | Edward Wakefield | Frances Davies Susanna Crash |
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| Edward Jerningham Wakefield | 1820 | 1879 | Eliza Anne Frances Pattle | Edward Gibbon Wakefield | Ellen Roe |
| Edward Wakefield | 1750 | 1826 | Bell Wakefield | Priscilla ? |
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| Charles Edward Wakefield | 1825 | 1828 | Selina Elizabeth De BURGH | Daniel Bell Wakefield |
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Edward Wakefield 🔍 ASHEmbarkation nominal rolls of Army troops who served overseas in WWII. They are not exhaustive and generally do not include Navy and Air Force servicemembers.
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| Name | Army No. | Vol. | Rank | Unit | Single? | Enlisted at | Occupation | Last NZ Address | Next of Kin |
| 🌳 Timaru George Edward Wakefield | 15290 | 3 | Private | Infantry Reinforcements | Married | Timaru | Runner-off | 25 High St., Timaru | Mrs. Margaret Mary Wakefield, 25 High St., Timaru (wife) |