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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.
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.
22. Mai 2024 · William Wilberforce (born August 24, 1759, Hull, Yorkshire, England—died July 29, 1833, London) was a 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
{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 ...
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, a philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812).
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 ...
Since 1906 it has been a slavery museum, with unique archival collections relating to its most famous resident, William Wilberforce, and his fight to abolish the slave trade. These papers are now made available to a wider audience in this microfilm edition.
