id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3825 Edward Gibbon Wakefield - Wikipedia .html text/html 6119 544 67 Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand (where he later served as an member of parliament). Wakefield returned to England in early 1844 to find the New Zealand Company under serious attack from the Colonial Office. ^ Richard Garnett, Edward Gibbon Wakefield: The Colonization of South Australia and New Zealand (Longmans, Green & Company, 1898). ^ a b Garnett, Edward Gibbon Wakefield: The Colonization of South Australia and New Zealand (1898). ^ Peter Alan Stuart, Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand: His Political Career, 1853-4 (Victoria University Press, 1971). Edward Gibbon Wakefield: The Colonization of South Australia and New Zealand (Longmans, Green & Company, 1898). Edward Gibbon Wakefield in New Zealand: His Political Career, 1853-4 (Victoria University Press, 1971). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3825.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3825.txt