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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March, 1796 – May 16, 1862) was the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand. Wakefield, who in 1816 married Eliza Prattle (1799 – 1820), was the eldest son of Edward Wakefield (1774 – 1854) and Susannah Crush (1767 – 1816).
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