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Henry Wilberforce. Henry William Wilberforce (22 September 1807 – 23 April 1873) was an English Catholic clergyman, formerly a Tractarian, and thereafter a newspaper proprietor, editor and journalist. Life. Henry Wilberforce was born in 1807, the youngest son of William Wilberforce and his wife, Barbara Ann Spooner.
22. Mai 2024 · William Wilberforce, British politician and philanthropist who from 1787 was prominent in the struggle to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery itself in British overseas possessions. His efforts led to the rescinding of the practice in the British West Indies in 1807 and its total abolition in 1833.
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William Wilberforce, FRSA (* 24. August 1759 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire; † 29. Juli 1833 in Chelsea) war ein britischer Parlamentsabgeordneter und Anführer im Kampf gegen die Sklaverei und den Sklavenhandel in der westlichen Welt.
Read a biography about William Wilberforce. Discover how influential he was in the abolition of the slave trade in the British empire.
WILBERFORCE, HENRY WILLIAM. Journalist and historian; b. Clapham, England, Sept. 22, 1807; d. Stroud, Gloucestershire, April 23, 1873. Henry, the youngest son of the famous William wilber-force, attended Oriel College, Oxford, where he became president of the Oxford Union and a favorite pupil of J.H. newman, under whose influence he forsook the ...
5. Juli 2011 · William Wilberforce (1759-1833) campaigned for the abolition of the British slave trade. He was an MP, a Christian writer and a social reformer.
{1} HENRY WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, the subject of this Memoir, was the youngest son of William Wilberforce, well known as the friend of Pitt and Member of Parliament for Yorkshire, and still more distinguished for his persevering and successful resistance in Parliament to the Slave Trade and Slavery, and for his high Christian character in a time ...
