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Wakefield was the de facto seat of regional government in Yorkshire for two centuries and became the county headquarters of the West Riding County Council created by the Local Government Act of 1888.
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Adelaide was established as a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.
John Harrison was born in Foulby, near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, the first of five children in his family.
Radcliffe was born the son of George Radcliffe, attorney, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and Northallerton Grammar School.
While knuckleballer Tim Wakefield was on the mound for the Red Sox, he related a story that then-Reds manager Sparky Anderson told him that he was thinking of trading for knuckleballer Phil Niekro.
He was released on 23 June 1959, after serving nine years and four months of his sentence at Wakefield Prison, and promptly emigrated to the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ).
This Robyn Hode was identified with ( one or more people called ) Robert Hood living in Wakefield before and after that time.
At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.
The guiding principle behind settlement was that of systematic colonisation, a theory espoused by Edward Gibbon Wakefield that was later employed by the New Zealand Company.
A 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield, originally published in The Lancet, presented supposed evidence that the MMR Vaccine ( an immunization against measles, mumps and rubella that is typically first administered to children before their first birthday ) was linked to the onset of autism spectrum disorders.
The epithet " Wakefield Master " was first applied to this individual by the literary historian Gayley.
The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles.
The Mysteries was a re-working of the Wakefield Cycle and others produced at the National Theatre in 1977.
When his father was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, Edward inherited his claim.
While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.
... but when he was in the plain ground between his castle and the town of Wakefield, he was environed on every side, like a fish in a net, or a deer in a buckstall ; so that he manfully fighting was within half an hour slain and dead, and his whole army discomfited.
Rutland attempted to escape over Wakefield Bridge, but was overtaken and killed, possibly by Clifford in revenge for his father's death at St Albans.
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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de: Schlacht von Wakefield
es: Batalla de Wakefield
fr: Bataille de Wakefield
pt: Batalha de Wakefield
es: Municipio de Wakefield ( condado de Gogebic, Míchigan )
es: Municipio de Wakefield ( condado de Stearns, Minnesota )
He hastily amassed his retainers and on horseback they ambushed the mounted Norman knights of Ilbert de Laci, who were moving on the road from Tanshelf to Wakefield.
Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) and the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, and in France Honoré de Balzac's The Curate of Tours ( Le Curé de Tours ) ( 1832 ) all evoke the impoverished world of the 18th-and 19th-century vicar.
With funds from her father and Lord Wakefield she purchased G-AAAH, a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth she named " Jason ", not after the voyager of Greek legend, but after her father's trade mark.
de: Wakefield ( Québec )
de: Edward Jerningham Wakefield
de: Edward Gibbon Wakefield
de: William Hayward Wakefield
de: Daniel Bell Wakefield
de: Felix Wakefield
The land in Castleford, Pontefract, Leeds, Wakefield and Morley was given to Ilbert de Lacey.
de: Wakefield ( Neuseeland )
After the death of Sir John de Horbury in 1306, it became one of the constituent ' graveships ' of the Manor of Wakefield.
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey was granted the Manor of Wakefield by the crown and his descendants, the Earls Warenne, inherited it when he died in 1088.
de: Der Pfarrer von Wakefield
fr: Le Vicaire de Wakefield
Wakefield and seat
Since the 2010 election, Ossett has been part of the Wakefield seat, held by Mary Creagh.
It is perhaps typical of Wakefield that, having been elected, he immediately returned to Britain and never took up his seat.
Wakefield strongly believed that Port Nicholson's central position made it the obvious choice to be New Zealand's capital and seat of government.
The see is in the City of Wakefield where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, a parish church elevated to cathedral status in 1888.
Wakefield Lodge, near Potterspury, was rebuilt by the 2nd Duke as his residence in Northamptonshire but the main Ducal seat is Euston Hall in Suffolk.
The village was associated with the Grafton Hunt, the Duke of Grafton having a seat at nearby Wakefield Lodge.
The successor seat to Morley and Rothwell is Morley and Outwood, which attaches wards from Wakefield to the Morley area.
Wakefield has returned Labour MPs since 1932 and for many years has been considered a safe Labour seat, but as of the 2010 general election is somewhat more marginal.
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