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	Edward Gibbon Wakefield Summary
		Edward Gibbon and William were both arrested as was their stepmother, who had participated in the early planning of the escapade.
		Edward Gibbon found him somewhere to live and farmed out the children among various relatives but it was another year before his health was strong enough to take over the role of surrogate father, Felix being apparently unable to do anything for his family.
		Edward Gibbon stood in the Hutt Valley and to the surprise of some and the disappointment of others he was successfully elected to both the Provincial Council and the General Assembly.
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	Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Gibbon and William were both arrested as was their stepmother, who had participated in the early planning of the escapade.
		Edward Gibbon emerged from prison committed and active in the cause of Prison reform.
		Edward Gibbon stood in the Hutt Valley and to the surprise of some and the disappointment of others he was successfully elected to both the Provincial Council and the General Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Gibbon_Wakefield (3999 words)

	Edward Gibbon Wakefield
		His father, Edward Wakefield, author of Ireland, Statistical and Political (1812), was a surveyor and land agent in extensive practice; his grandmother, Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), was a popular author for the young, and one of the introducers of savings banks.
		Wakefield was for a short time at Westminster School, and was brought up to his father's profession, which he relinquished on occasion of his elopement at the age of twenty with Miss Pattle, the orphan daughter of an Indian civil servant.
		Wakefield was a man of large views and lofty aims, and in private life displayed the warmth of heart which commonly accompanies these qualities.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		As a boy Edward Gibbon was apparently obstinate and wilful, produced by the unstable, financially pressed, early years of his parents’ marriage.
		Wakefield was left with the interest from a trust fund of £70,000.
		In all his colonization ventures Wakefield was essentially a promoter and lobbyist and his theory a justification for schemes of speculation in colonial lands.
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	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Edward Gibbon was the oldest son and second of nine children.
		Priscilla Wakefield, an unorthodox Quaker, was preoccupied with her own literary and charitable interests; she wrote children's stories and invented the idea of savings banks, and was harassed by the many problems of her sons and downwardly mobile husband.
		The girl, whom Wakefield had never met, was first lured away from school by a false message saying her mother was dangerously ill. She was subsequently deceived by Wakefield into marrying him, with the story that her father had desperate money troubles and that the marriage was the only means of solving them.
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	Edward Jerningham Wakefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820-1879) was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
		In 1839 he accompanied his uncle, Colonel William Wakefield to New Zealand on the New Zealand Company ship Tory.
		Edward Jerningham had intended to stay in New Zealand for only a few months but he found the growth of the new colony so fascinating that it was four years before he returned to England in 1844.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Jerningham_Wakefield (311 words)

	WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born in London on 20 March 1796, the eldest son of Edward Wakefield, a London land agent and surveyor, and his wife Susanna, née Crash, an Essex farmer's daughter.
		Wakefield's influence on Lord Howick, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, was largely responsible for the introduction of sale as the sole method of disposing of land in New South Wales in 1831.
		Wakefield did not care for detail and was not strong in administration; but he had marked political ability, though he was more effective in committee work and personal contacts than he could ever have been in public office.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/W/WakefieldEdwardGibbon/WakefieldEdwardGibbon/en (2318 words)

	All Beer and Skittles? - Edward Gibbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Gibbon pushed the scheme with his usual energy, apparently the government did not object in principal but they strenuously objected to Edward Gibbon having any part of it.But trusted or no by the politicians Edward Gibbon was involved inthe scheme.
		Edward Gibbon managed to clear himself of the actual charges but a great deal of dirt was thrown around.Electionsfor the Provincial Councils and General Assembly, the national parliament were scheduled for August.
		Edward Gibbon stood in the Hutt Valley and to the surprise of some and the disappointment of others he was successfully elected to both the Provincial Council and the General Assembly.The first sitting of the Provincial Assembly was in October of 1853.
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	Edward Gibbon Wakefield < House swapping < Autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This enormous 1849 portrait of Wakefield overlooks the garment exhibition in a mezzanine gallery in the Christchurch museum.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a controversial reformer of English colonial theory and a founder of the New Zealand Company.
		Wakefield’s main innovation was the notion of a ‘sufficient price’ for land.
	www.marquis-kyle.com.au /nz/000620.htm (254 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Empire - Imperialism & Edward Wakefield
		Therefore, colonial planners and would-be reformers like Edward Wakefield were to have more influence on the management of Imperial policy than the unimaginative mandarins of an increasingly recognizable Whitehall colonial bureaucracy.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a thinker, a reformer and although he never had direct power, his ideas were accepted.
		Edward Wakefield only went to New Zealand late in life and was politely ignored by the then administration.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_37.shtml (748 words)

	Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the Canterbury Association - Early Christchurch - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries
		In 1826 Wakefield ran off with another young girl because he hoped that her father would be forced to help him with his political career if she was his wife.
		Wakefield was involved for a while in plans for the colonisation of South Australia, and also spent time in Canada, while working on plans to colonise New Zealand.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a man with a strong personality and ambition.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /heritage/earlychristchurch/edwardgibbonwakefield.asp (1392 words)

	Facts about edward gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was a groundbreaking historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
		He later wrote that his father, out of "perplexity rather than prudence, without preparation or delay, carried me to Oxford, and I was matriculated in the university, as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen college, before I had accomplished the fifteenth year of my age".
		To prevent such an event, the elder Gibbon removed him from the University, and sent him instead to M. Pavilliard, a Protestant pastor and private tutor in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Edward Gibbon
		Gibbon, Edward GIBBON, EDWARD [Gibbon, Edward] 1737-94, English historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
		Thomas Cromwell and Edward Gibbon were born in Putney, and Algernon Swinburne and William Pitt lived there.
		Gibbon's 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1.' (Edward Gibbons)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Edward+Gibbon (770 words)

	LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Edward Gibbon Wakefield
		But trusted or not by the politicians, Edward Gibbon was involved in the scheme.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield was a scoundrel and a cad, a free land advocate, a realitor, opposed to the British Mercantile State Monopoly, and thus he was not trusted by them.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s plans were designed to recreate in British North America the inequalities associated with labour’s divorce from capital as necessary for social and economic development, but others sought the same end by means of the greater social equality that came from reuniting labour with capital.
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	Edward Wakefield
		Wakefield agreed to take her to Shrigley but in Leeds Wakefield claimed he had a meeting in Paris that he could not postpone and sent his brother to invite her father to London.
		Wakefield claimed that since they were legally married, she could not be taken from him by force.
		Wakefield, in attempt to not to make his situation worse, put in writing that she was still a virgin and left for Paris.British police issued warrants for Wakefields arrest and William Wakefield was arrested in Dover couple of day later.
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	Edward Gibbon Wakefield - biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wakefield was “concerned by the problems of increasing population, with resultant poverty and crime.
		The South Australian Association was founded on Wakefield’s ideas, follewed by the establishment of the South Australian colony on Wakefield’s principles (Wakefield, Edward).
		Wakefield himself traveled to New Zealand in 1853 in an attempt to start a new political career but fell ill in 1855 and was forced to retire.
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	Facts about felix wakefield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However this was interupted in 1826 as a result of the scandal surroundiong his brothers, Edward Gibbon and William Wakefield and also his step mother.
		However Edward Gibbon was also involved in the promotion and planning of a new scheme for the colonization of New Zealand, the Cantebury Association under the auspices of the Church of England and he persuaded himself that brother Felix with his surveying skills had a contribution to make.
		Eventually relations between the brothers were so bad that Edward Gibbon more or less wrote off his brother's debts, paid him a substantial sum of money and sent him off to New Zealand.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/felix_wakefield.html (822 words)

	09aug06 - pafg202 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Sarah Alice Beaumont GIBBON Born 16 Jul 1885 in Newton Heath, Manchester.
		Beaumont GIBBON Born Q1 1887 in Newton Heath, Manchester.
		Herbert Beaumont GIBBON Born 25 Aug 1888 in Newton Heath, Manchester.
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	Gibbon, Edward
		Edward, 1737-94, English historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
		Edward Gibbon was born in Putney in South London into a prosperous family...
		Edward Gibbon : The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol.
	www.historyfizz.co.uk /k.php?qkw=Gibbon,+Edward&type=s (410 words)

	The Newgate Calendar - EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, WILLIAM WAKEFIELD AND FRANCES WAKEFIELD
		This done, she returned with Mr Wakefield to Carlisle, and there expressed her anxious solicitude with regard to her father's situation, and desired at once to see him, in order that she might be assured of his safety.
		On Monday, the 14th of May, Messrs E. and W. Wakefield were carried to the Court of King's Bench at Westminster to receive judgment, when affidavits were put in on their behalf, declaring that the latter had acted entirely under the guidance and direction of his elder brother.
		Mrs Frances Wakefield, against whom a verdict of guilty had also been returned, was not brought up for judgment; the generous feelings of Mr Turner, much injured as his family had been, preventing him from proceeding with harshness against a female.
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	A Moment In Time with Dan Roberts
		Content: Edward Gibbon Wakefield was the spoiled son of prominent, politically well-connected London Quaker family.
		The now disciplined and chastened mind of Edward Gibbon Wakefield was turned to the betterment of society.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield, builder of the British Commonwealth.
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	Wakefield Edward Gibbon - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wakefield Edward Gibbon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862), British colonial statesman, instrumental in the colonization of Australia and New Zealand.
		Proposals to establish the colony were inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield,...
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	Edward Gibbon Wakefield
		(Wakefield) was his greatest friend; that his uncle could
		Wakefield was apprehended at Dover within a few days
		Wakefield should be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/newgate5/wakefield.htm (3154 words)

	Edward Gibbon
		Gibbon “sighed as a lover” but “obeyed as a son” and gave up the match.
		Gibbon himself was assured of the greatness of his work, which is, indeed, one of the most-read historical works of modern times.
		Orlando Gibbons - Gibbons, Orlando, 1583–1625, English organist and composer.
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	Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was attached to the British embassies in Turin (1814–16) and Paris (1820–26), but in 1826 was convicted of an attempt to marry an heiress by trickery.
		While in prison (1827–30) Wakefield prepared material for a book on capital punishment (pub.
		Wakefield accompanied (1838) Lord Durham to Canada as an adviser and influenced Durham’s report on Canadian government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wa/WakfldE.html (279 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WAKEFIELD, EDWARD GIBBON [Wakefield, Edward Gibbon] 1796-1862, British colonial statesman.
		He was attached to the British embassies in Turin (1814-16) and Paris (1820-26), but in 1826 was convicted of an attempt to marry an heiress by trickery.
		While in prison (1827-30) Wakefield prepared material for a book on capital punishment (pub.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WakfldE1.asp (414 words)

	The Australian Journal of Politics and History: EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue.(Review)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a name with which we are all at least familiar.
		Something to do with the planned settlement of Adelaide and the Canterbury area of New Zealand, and a promoter of migration to the antipodes, is the usual school-history memory.
		In August 1996, the bicentennial of the birth of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, hosted an international conference about his life and influence on New Zealand and Australia.
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	AIM25: Queen Mary, University of London: WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862)
		AIM25: Queen Mary, University of London: WAKEFIELD, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862)
		Builder of the British Commonwealth Paul Bloomfield (Longmans, London, 1961); Edward Gibbon Wakefield; a political reappraisal John Norman (Fairfield, Conn New Frontiers of Fairfield University, 1963); A great view of things.
		Edward Gibbon Wakefield June Phillip (Melbourne, Nelson, [1971]); Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand.
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	AllRefer.com - Edward Gibbon Wakefield (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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