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Barbara Ann Wilberforce, geborene Barbara Ann Spooner, (* 24. Dezember 1771 in Birches Green, Warwickshire; † 21. April 1847 in East Farleigh, Kent) war die Ehefrau des britischen Abolitionisten und Abgeordneten William Wilberforce .
Barbara Wilberforce. Portrait in about 1797 by John Russell. Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. [1] Early life. She was born in Birches Green, Erdington, Warwickshire, and died in The Vicarage, East Farleigh, Kent .
What was it about Barbara Ann Spooner that convinced Babington she possessed the qualities to make her the wife of the most celebrated, popular, and brilliant evangelical of his day? It is a question that was to puzzle Wilberforce’s friends and biographers, and perhaps even his own children.
Barbara Spooner Wilberforce. Barbara. Spooner. Wilberforce. She was the third child and eldest daughter of Isaac Spooner of Elmdon Hall, Warwickshire, a Birmingham banker, and his wife, Barbara Gough-Calthorpe, the sister of the first Lord Calthorpe. On 15 April 1797, while at Bath, she met her future husband, William Wilberforce, to whom she ...
In April 1797 aged 37, William Wilberforce met Barbara Spooner, a young woman who shared his deeply held Christian beliefs. Eight days after meeting Barbara, William proposed and they were married a month later. The couple were devoted to each other and had six children.
19. Dez. 2023 · While living there, Wilberforce, in 1797, married Barbara Spooner. Over the next 10 years, they had six children. An evangelical rector was secured for the parish church, and the group worshipped together, prayed together, and campaigned together. Henry Thornton described Wilberforce as “a candle that should not be hid under a ...
force lived with Thornton until Wilberforce’s marriage to Barbara Spooner. He and Barbara then moved into Bloomfield, one of two houses built on the grounds. The other was leased to Charles Grant, another regu-lar member of the Clapham group. What had begun as an informal group of friends drawn together by common concerns eventually
