Edward Wakefield (politician)
- Edward Wakefield (politician)
Edward Wakefield (1845-1924) was the son of Felix Wakefield, one of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s younger brothers. Edward was born in Launceston, Tasmania, brought up in New Zealand, and educated in France and King’s College, London.
He was a journalist and then politician in New Zealand, who showed considerable promise, though this was not fulfilled.
He was the Member of Parliament for Geraldine 1875-81, then for Selwyn 1884-87, when he resigned. He had been a colourful, volatile and ambitious politician.
He then concentrated on writing, producing "New Zealand after Fifty Years" (1889).
Later he moved to America, then London. He died in London, blind, in a Carthusian Charterhouse in 1924.
References
* [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/W/WakefieldEdward/WakefieldEdward/en Biography in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand]
* The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1 part 1 (1897), Wellington: page 82.
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