Prior to that, he had passed on a role in another Stephen Gaghan-written role, Robert Wakefield in Traffic.

The northern Lancastrian army which had been victorious at Wakefield was reinforced by Scots and borderers eager for plunder, and marched south.

In January 2008, it was reported that Marr had taken part in a week-long songwriting session at Moolah Rouge recording studio in Stockport with Wakefield indie group The Cribs.

Later investigation by Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer discovered the lead author of the article, Andrew Wakefield, had multiple undeclared conflicts of interest ,< ref >

For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.

Hall, had the town site of Wakefield platted in May 1886 ; the general location was already being referred to as " Wakefield " as early as the fall of 1884.

He spent about six months in prison at Oxford, was plundered of all he had at Rupert's relief of Newark ( 22 March 1644 ), was shot through the arm at the taking of Walton Hall, near Wakefield ( 3 June 1644 ), and received very little pay.

By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield.

Capital to fund the scheme had been raised separately by the Wakefield and Leeds committees.

The fingertip grip is actually more commonly used today by pitchers who throw the knuckleball, like retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who had a knuckleball with a lot of movement.

The Wakefield, Lincoln and Boston Railway had negotiated with the proprietors of the Witham and Fossdyke in 1846, to guarantee them an income by leasing the waterways.

After York was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, the large army which Margaret had gathered advanced south.

Gilbert Wakefield had published a Tragoediarum delectus ; and, conceiving himself to be slighted, as there was no mention of his work in the new Hecuba, he wrote a diatribe extemporalis against it.

North of Doncaster, it opened the West Riding and Grimsby Railway in February 1866, a joint venture with the MS & LR, giving the GNR a new direct express line to Wakefield and the West Yorkshire Railway's onward lines to Leeds, Bradford and Halifax, which it had bought out the previous year.

Some of them had connections with The Players ' Theatre in London, but only Wakefield had actually appeared in the show's London production ( in the very first run at the Players ').

In January 1843 Captain Arthur Wakefield, who had been dispatched by the New Zealand Company to lead the first group of settlers to Nelson, wrote to his brother, Colonel Edward Gibbon Wakefield, one of the principal officers of the New Zealand Company, that he had located the required amount of land at Wairau, an average distance of 25 km from Nelson.

FitzRoy's report was endorsed by Colonial Secretary Lord Stanley, who said the actions of the party led by Thompson and Wakefield had been " manifestly illegal, unjust and unwise ", and that their deaths had occurred as a " natural and immediate sequence ".

She was educated at Wakefield Girls High School, Barnsley Sixth Form College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where she read Modern and Mediaeval Languages.

It was read by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and led to the choice of South Australia for the new settlement then in contemplation.

Amongst others, he read Lethbridge's ' Selections from Modern English Literature ' and Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.

A later account of English social history recalls it as " one of the best known girls ' schools " and states, " Here the girls learnt some literature, which consisted of Scott's longer poems and The Vicar of Wakefield, read aloud by Miss Mangnall herself, geography, spelling, the catechism, and a little pencil drawing.

Reading Wakefield's subsequent accounts of the deals he made with the Māori and also other accounts ( such as that written by his nephew, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, who accompanied him on the expedition as acting secretary ), every effort was made to fulfil these conditions.

* 1988 – Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor

Wakefield regarded the South Australian experience as a failure, however, and in 1836 set his sights on New Zealand, where his theories of " systematic " colonisation could be put into effect.

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004.

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004.

The Bounty Scheme, which ran from 1835 to 1841, was proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield as a way for Australian settlers to subsidise the emigration of skilled tradespeople from Britain.

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004.

He was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1983 to October 2004, representing the Division of Wakefield, South Australia.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Wakefield

The Northern Expressway was built at the south-western end of the Sturt Highway, virtually extending it by 22km from Gawler southwest to meet Port Wakefield Road ( National Route A1 ) at Waterloo Corner as part of an AusLink / South Australian Government project to build a new dual-carriageway / freeway standard road as part of the North-South Corridor project.

In 2005, his seventh book, Golden Miles: Sex, Speed and the Australian Muscle Car, was published by Lothian ; an updated edition was published by Wakefield Press in 2009.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Wakefield

Bailliere's South Australian gazetteer and road guide, published in 1866, contains a brief description of " Hummock's Run " located north of Port Wakefield.

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004.

Port Wakefield Road is an important Australian highway.

This was acquired by the South Australian Railways in 1877 and a new narrow gauge line was built along its route and connected to Port Wakefield in about 1878.

He was educated at QEGS Wakefield and played for Yorkshire schools at under 16 and 19 levels and North East Schools against Australian schools.

Truro is in the Mid Murray Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Schubert and the Australian House of Representatives Divisions of Barker and Wakefield.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Wakefield

Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004.

Ward supported the colonisation aims and methods of Edward Gibbon Wakefield ; and was a committee member of the South Australian Association set up in 1834 by Wakefield, with Buller and Grote, and also William Clay, Rowland Hill, William Molesworth, Southwood Smith, Henry Warburton and William Wolryche-Whitmore.

She starred alongside Toni Collette and Rhys Wakefield in Australian director Elissa Down's film The Black Balloon as the girlfriend of a boy whose brother has autism.

The Division of Wakefield is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia.