ID Number107962
NameWAKEFIELD Daniel Bell
Family NameWAKEFIELD
Plot3317
CemeteryChurch of England
StatusExisting Grave
Location on the Modern Grid MapL15 03
Inscription on TombstoneDaniel WAKEFIELD, died 8 January 1858, aged 59. "And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm 143. Ver. 2."
Description of GraveThe original Wakefield memorials are in the Bolton Street Cemetery Museum on Bolton Street. The family grave was updated many years ago. The large plot has four headstones laid flat, and surrounded by high iron railings painted grey.
Date of Death or Burial*08 Jan, 1858
Public Cemetery Register Number
Type of Record Burial
Age59
SexMale
BiographyBorn in 1798, between older brother Edward Gibbon and younger brother William Hayward, Daniel WAKEFIELD gained a law degree and joined the family's colonial settlement schemes first in South Australia and then New Zealand. Tainted by scandalous behaviour, however, he kept a low profile when he eventually arrived in Wellington, but later entered politics with William's help and was appointed a Crown solicitor and public prosecutor in 1847, then attorney-general in 1848, and finally a judge in 1855. His health deteriorated in the 1850s; he had to give up his duties, and he died early in 1858.