Edward Gibbon Wakefield 1796-1862 -- reformer and original thinker on proper colonial administration, in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Reformer
assisted Lord Durham in his report following the the 1837 Rebellions
his thoughts on administration of colonies were published in
A view of the art of colonization, with present reference to the British Empire ; in letters between a statesman and a colonist (1849)
His views are thought to be utopian
see Shane Chalmers, "The Utopian Law and Literature of Systematic Colonisation" Law and Literature, volume 35, 2023 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1535685X.2021.2011046
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Wakefield's work in Canada is discussed in
The colonization of Australia (1829-42); the Wakefield experiment in empire building, by Richard Charles Mills, with an introduction by Graham Wallas
much on politics of pre-Confederation Canada.
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