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NZ Company ship Tory arrives
The New Zealand Company party, which included William Wakefield and his nephew Jerningham, was sent to make preparations for organised settlement.
Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820–79) was the son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the prime mover behind immigration schemes from Britain to New Zealand in the late 1830s and 1840s.
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