Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

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.

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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 ".

After graduating from high school, the three began to take their musical interests more seriously, recruiting Joe Hahn, Dave " Phoenix " Farrell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, Xero.

The most complete is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants ; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, once thought to have been a true ' cycle ' of plays acted at Wakefield ; the Ludus Coventriae ( also called the N Town plays " or Hegge cycle ), now generally agreed to be a redacted compilation of at least three older, unrelated plays, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.

Locks on the Wakefield section can accommodate vessels which are with a draught of, while the locks below Castleford have three sets of gates, so that a section can be used, rather than the full required by the compartment boats.

Pontefract has three railway stations: Pontefract Baghill, on the Dearne Valley Line, which connects York and Sheffield ; and Pontefract Monkhill and Pontefract Tanshelf, which connects with Leeds and Wakefield.

Varitek holds the postseason record with three in Game 5 of the 2004 American League Championship Series while catching Wakefield.

Wakefield duly despatched three parties of surveyors to the land.

The monks built a new town where three roads met: the Sheffield to Wakefield, Rotherham to Huddersfield and Cheshire to Doncaster routes.

Fleay saw grounds for assigning to Lodge Mucedorus and Amadine, played by the Queen's Men about 1588, a share with Robert Greene in George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, and in Shakespeare's 2nd part of Henry VI ; he also regards him as at least part-author of The True Chronicle of King Leir and his three Daughters ( 1594 ); and The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England ( c. 1588 ); in the case of two other plays he allowed the assignation to Lodge to be purely conjectural.

One of those three, Joseph Ratzinger, was elected Pope in the resulting conclave and took the name Benedict XVI, another one ( Jaime Sin ) did not attend that conclave for health reasons and died shortly afterwards, and the third, William Wakefield Baum, turned 80 on 21 November 2006.

Wakefield was brought to trial for the case known as the Shrigley abduction in 1827 and, along with his brother William, sentenced to three years in Newgate prison.

Although their names are not mentioned it seems likely that report was written in cooperation by the three men, Durham, Buller and Wakefield.

Then, while out on bail, Wakefield absconded to Paris, apparently to meet up with Emily who by now was three months pregnant.

Backed by three home runs, Tim Wakefield shut the Bombers down in Game 1.

It ends with three of the twelve astronauts stranded inside Rama as it travels out of the solar system, Nicole des Jardins Wakefield, Richard Wakefield and Michael O ' Toole.

Both Edward Wakefield and his brother William, who had aided him, were convicted at trial and sentenced to three years in prison.

In the 2000 season Huddersfield-Sheffield won only four games, three of them against rivals Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

It is situated north of the River Calder about three miles ( 5 km ) south west of Wakefield and two miles ( 3 km ) to the south of Ossett.

Over the next three seasons, Wakefield and Mirabelli became an effective battery.

During a 1998 press conference, Wakefield suggested that giving children the vaccines in three separate doses would be safer than a single vaccination.

The young Monica Newton received a fragmentary formal education: she is known to have attended Wakefield Girls High School between September 1920 and July 1921 and when the family were living at Rye Harbour she was sent to St Brandon's School, Bristol where she remained for just three months in 1928 before returning to Sussex.

In the top of the thirteenth, Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek, who does not normally catch for Wakefield and who admits to be poor at catching knuckleballs, allowed three passed balls, but the Yankees stranded runners on second and third.

As the sport in Britain entered a new era, it would be three years before Wakefield rose again to the top level of the game.

Former Hull FC coach Richard Agar became Wakefield Trinity's head coach before the start of the 2012, Super League XVII season, on a three year deal.