Personal details
Full Name:
- Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Lifetime:
- 25 Jun 1820–3 Mar 1879
Biography
As the only son of New Zealand Company director Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Wakefield's life was inevitably bound up in his father's colonial and political ventures.
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17 August 1839New Zealand Company ship Tory arrivesThe sailing ship Tory dropped anchor in Queen Charlotte Sound to pick up fresh water, food and wood before proceeding to Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour). Read more...
Articles
The House of Representatives
New Zealand's Parliament dates back to 1854, just 14 years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the beginning of the European settlement of the country. For most of its history as a nation state, New Zealand has had some form of elected government.
- Page 6 - The OppositionThe Opposition uses a variety of tactics to hold the government to
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Main image: Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820–79) was the son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the prime mover behind immigration schemes from Britain to New Zealand in the late 1830s and 1840s.