Edward Gibbon Wakefield bronze plaque

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# Edward Gibbon Wakefield at 1–5 Adam Street Standing at this elegant Strand address, you're standing at the nerve centre of one man's audacious vision for an entire nation. From these offices on 5 May 1839, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his New Zealand Company dispatched the survey ship Tory—not mer...

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1–5 Adam Street, Strand, WC2

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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.