page_title: Edward Thomas Wakefield
section_title: Wakefield v Buccleuch
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Thomas Wakefield / Wakefield v Buccleuch
caption_attribution_description: English: E T Wakefield's plan for his land at Askam. Houses shaded red were sold before the case. From evidence in Wakefield v Buccleuch, BDBUC 47/3 at CRO, Barrow
context_page_description: Edward Thomas Wakefield was a UK barrister.
  He was born in Leeson Street, Dublin in 1821. He obtained his BA from Dublin University on 16 May 1846 and moved to London to practise as a barrister.
  The first mention of estates in Ireland was on 12 June 1884 when he was in dispute with his tenants over peat rights. The tenants of his Lurgan estate described him as an absentee landlord. The estate included Portadown House.
  He died at Margate on 21 June 1896.
context_section_description: In 1865 E. T. Wakefield bought Chapman's Lot, Askam near Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, from Thomas Sharpe.  The intention was to build an ironworks for the Furness Iron and Steel Co, in which he was a partner, and also a housing estate on his own account.  There was an iron mine working here on a lease from the Duke of Buccleuch.  When the inevitable subsidance became apparent, Wakefield sought to establish:
  a, that the duke was not entitled to ore under his land and 
  b, that the duke was not entitled to cause surface damage on his land.
  Wakefield won his case in 1867 but the verdict was overturned in the House of Lords in 1870.
caption: E T Wakefield's plan for his land at Askam.  Houses shaded red were sold before the case.  From evidence in Wakefield v Buccleuch, BDBUC 47/3 at CRO, Barrow
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