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Edward Gibbon Wakefields grave
Title : Edward Gibbon Wakefields grave Edward Gibbon Wakefields grave
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Creator : Scott, Jenny, photographer
Place Of Creation : Wellington NZ
Date of creation : 2007
Format : Photograph
Dimensions : 2304 x 3456 pixels
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Description :
View, looking west, of the grave of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the Bolton Street Memorial Park, Wellington, New Zealand. (Wakefield's grave is at the top right). Also buried in the same plot are his brothers, William and Daniel Wakefield, and Daniel's daughter, Selina Elizabeth Wakefield.

The inscription reads:

EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD
DIED MAY 16TH 1862
AGED 66 YEARS
A FOUNDER OF THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALAND
AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA
AUTHOR OF THE SYSTEM OF COLONISATION
WHICH BEARS HIS NAME. PERSONAL ADVISOR TO LORD DURHAM,
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, 1838.
ELECTED TO THE CANADIAN LOWER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN 1842.
FOUNDED NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION
AND NEW ZEALAND LAND COMPANY.
ORGANIZED PRELIMINARY EXPEDITION TO ESTABLISH SETTLEMENTS.
ARRIVED IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1853
AND ELECTED MEMBER OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF WELLINGTON
AND OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THE UTMOST HAPPINESS GOD VOUCHSAFES TO MAN ON EARTH -
THE REALIZATION OF HIS OWN IDEA - E.G.W.

Subjects
Related names :

Wakefield, Daniel, 1798-1858
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
Wakefield, Selina, 1837-1848
Wakefield, William, 1803-1848

Further reading :
Temple, Phillip, A sort of conscience : the Wakefields, Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 2002
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australasia, London: Joseph Cross, 1829
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