Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
Date of birth
20 March 1796
Date of death
16 May 1862
Gender
Male
Biography
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of South Australia, and later New Zealand. Married Eliza Pattle (1799-1820) in 1816.
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