Edward Gibbon Wakefield
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He was best known for his colonisation scheme, sometimes referred to as the Wakefield scheme or the Wakefield system which aimed to populate the new colony South Australia with a workable combination of labourers, tradespeople, artisans and capital. The scheme was to be financed by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants.
Despite being imprisoned for three years in 1827 for kidnapping a fifteen-year-old girl in Britain, he enjoyed a lengthy career in colonial governments and colonial policy. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 2001.