Daniel Wakefield (judge)

Daniel Bell Wakefield ( born February 27, 1798 in Burnham Wick, Essex, England; † January 8, 1858 in Wellington, New Zealand ) came from the family of Wakefield and was a lawyer in Wellington, Attorney General for New Munster and briefly judge of the Supreme Court in New Zealand.

Life and work

As the third child of Edward Wakefield (1774-1854) and Susanna Crash (1767-1816), he grew up after the father lost his farm in 1807 and lived in Westminster, London, mainly with his grandmother Priscilla Bell in Tottenham on.

With his older brother Edward Gibbon and the two younger brothers William and Arthur Hayward, he attended the Tottenham Grammar School. He was there as a slow and little initiative pointing students. In the later school years he was housed with Francis Place, an English social reformer and friend of his father. The planning, to learn accounting and agriculture after leaving school, he made Christmas 1815 a spanner in the works. Due to some loutish he was sent by his father to Amsterdam to work in a merchant's office. Francis Place described him as lazy, moody and dishonest, but believed that out of it would still be a decent man.

In November 1816 his older brother Edward decided, at the request of his father to bring him to Turin. His brother worked at the British Embassy and was able to give him a job. But instead of working, he traveled much prefer wandering around in Italy and decided that the pleasure came before work. Although only age difference of two years there, Daniel and Edward lived intellectually in two different worlds. In February 1818, he went to pressure his brother back to London. In the following years he worked together with his father, took over a large portion of its business activities, and married in 1823 his first wife Selina Elizabeth de Burg ( 1802-1828 ).

From 1827 he attended the Honorable Society of Lincoln 's Inn, one of the four English bar associations, and studied law until his final 1831st With the establishment of the National Political Union in November 1831, whose chairman was his protégé Francis Place, he committed himself to the interests of the working class and no session left out from day one.

In 1832 he was admitted as a lawyer to court, engaged in the Parliamentary Candidate Society and stood in December 1832 for election for the newly reformed Parliament. Blamed by public smear campaign for the mistakes of his brother Edward, he missed the election. After this frustration and by his brother Edward inspired in terms of colonization, he was active from now on in the South Australian Association was founded on November 27, 1833 and helped as a lawyer in the Charter of Constitution with. On September 1, 1835, he married his second wife Angela Attwood, daughter of Thomas Attwood, economist and advocate of electoral reform in the UK.

Daniel Bell Wakefield planned with his family to South Australia to go and tried there, to be Chief Justice, but was rejected. After withdrawal of his brother Edward from the colonization of South Australia and under the pressure of his father Thomas Attwood not to go to Australia, he eventually lost interest and ceased its involvement in the South Australian Association.

Daniel Bell Wakefield practiced until 1841 as a lawyer in London. After he had separated from his wife and had 4,000 pounds of debt, he was able to escape with the help of his brother Edward in 1843 to New Zealand. Under the pseudonym "Mr. Bowler " he came to New Plymouth, but gave his identity again when his brother Arthur Wakefield was born on June 17, 1843 in the so-called Wairau tumult died and he went to the funeral of his brother to Wellington. He stayed there and worked as a lawyer again. In May 1844, he was sent by the New Zealand Company by Otago to moderate a dispute between Frederick Tuckett and John Jermyn Symonds about buying the so-called block concerning the settlement of Otago, Dunedin.

In March 1848, after five years of separation, finally came his wife with their two children, Charles Mark and Selina Elizabeth to Wellington. Selina died in August 1848 and Alice Mary was born in October 1849 as the third child of the family.

On September 1, 1848 Daniel was appointed to the Attorney General for New Munster, a position he held until 1853. With the land distribution policy and the treatment of Maori by the new Governor George Edward Grey disagree, he quit the job and was only briefly as chief judge from 1855 to 1856, representing active. Daniel Bell Wakefield died on January 8, 1858 in Wellington.

Swell

• Philip Temple: A sort of conscience - The Wakefield. Auckland University Press, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002, ISBN 1-86940-276-6.
• An Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966

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• English
• Born in 1798
• Died in 1858
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