This plaque features Edward Gibbon Wakefield. It's located at 1–5 Adam Street, Strand, WC2.
This plaque features Edward Gibbon Wakefield. It's located at 1–5 Adam Street, Strand, WC2.
From offices on this site the New Zealand Company on 5 May 1839 despatched the survey ship Tory to begin the colonisation of New Zealand on the Wakefield Plan.
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born on 1 January, 1796. They died on 1 January, 1862. They lived to the age of 66.
Connection of type 'located' between Edward Gibbon Wakefield bronze plaque and 1–5 Adam Street, Strand, WC2