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Wilberforce was a small, sickly and delicate child with poor eyesight. [6] In 1767, he began attending Hull Grammar School, [7] which at the time was headed by Joseph Milner, who would become a lifelong friend. [8] Wilberforce profited from the supportive atmosphere at the school, until his father died in 1768.
Samuel Wilberforce, FRS (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop in the Church of England, and the third son of William Wilberforce. Known as " Soapy Sam ", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day. [ 1 ]
He did not return to Parliament, though he contested Taunton in the 1841 general election, and Bradford in a subsequent by-election. [2] In 1850, Wilberforce converted to Catholicism, [1] along with his youngest brother, Henry, a parson in Kent. [3] Four years later, a third brother, Robert, would also resign his Anglican archdeaconry and ...
Wilberforce was pre-deceased by his first wife Agnes Everilda Frances Wrangham (1800–1834) and second wife Jane Legard (d. 1854). [1]He was survived by two sons, William Francis Wilberforce (1833–1905), Vicar of Brodsworth and president of the Oxford Union, [8] and Edward Wilberforce (1834–1914), who became one of the masters of the Supreme Court of Judicature.
The Act passed its second reading in the House of Commons unopposed on 22 July 1833, just a week before William Wilberforce died. [25] It received royal assent a month later, on 28 August, and came into force the following year, on 1 August 1834. In practical terms, only slaves below the age of six were freed in the colonies.
Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. [1] ... She died in The Vicarage, ...
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Huxley was initially reluctant to engage Wilberforce in a public debate about evolution, but, in a chance encounter, Robert Chambers persuaded him not to desert the cause. [1] [4] The Reverend Baden Powell would have been on the platform, too, but he had died of a heart attack on 11 June. [10] [17]