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8 unusual facts about Wilberforce


Erik Williams

He played college football at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, where he was an NAIA All-American offensive lineman.

Highlands East, Ontario

At Wilberforce where the railway skirted the southern shore of Pusey Lake (now Dark Lake), the Wilberforce Lumber Company put up a sawmill.

Teddy Seymour

Teddy won an athletic scholarship to attend to college, and is a former All-American cross country road runner star at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Tirrel Burton

Burton began a long career as a college football coach in 1968, accepting a position as an assistant football coach at the historically black Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Wayne A. Cauthen

Wayne Cauthen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey and graduated Cum Laude from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and attended graduate school at the University of Colorado.

Wilberforce, New South Wales

It was named after William Wilberforce (1759–1833) who was a British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

Wilberforce, Ohio

The community was named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for abolition of slavery and achieved the end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom and its empire.

Bishop Daniel Payne, who led the founding and later purchase of the college, was its first president and served for many years.


Cammie Smith

Cameron Wilberforce Smith (born July 29, 1933, Upper Dayrells Road, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1960 to 1962.

Catholic Defence Association

As Secretary he engaged in a correspondence on Church of Ireland proselytizing which was published as Proselytism in Ireland: the Catholic Defence Association versus the Irish Church Missions on the charge of bribery and intimidation; a correspondence between the Rev. Alex Dallas and the Rev. Henry Wilberforce (1852).

Clayton, West Sussex

Katie Johnson, an actress best known for her acclaimed performance as the elderly Mrs Wilberforce in the 1955 film The Ladykillers, was born here in 1878.

Cyril Rootham

Rootham was born in Redland, Bristol to Daniel Wilberforce Rootham and Mary Rootham (née Gimblett Evans).

David Levering Lewis

Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School in Ohio.

Elmdon, West Midlands

William Wilberforce lived in Elmdon for some time after his marriage to Barbara Spooner, and has the church's Wilberforce Hall named after him.

Eric Metaxas

He is best known for two biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player.

Lucan Biddulph

This group of roughly 200 disenfranchised Blacks were granted refuge and land by the Canada Company and duly set up a colony named Wilberforce.

Oliver Driver

He appeared in Jonathan King's Under The Mountain, a film adaptation of the Maurice Gee book of the same name as Mr Wilberforce, the main villain.

Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce

Richard Wilberforce was a great-great-grandson of the famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court, India.

Thomas Cogan

A long analysis of Cogan's writings is in Jared Sparks's ‘Collection of Essays and Tracts in Theology’ (1824), which also contains (pp. 237–362) a reprint of his Letters to William Wilberforce on the doctrine of Hereditary Depravity, by a Layman (pseud. i.e. T. Cogan), in which he denounced the view supported by William Wilberforce in his Practical View of the prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians, and argued for the happiness of all mankind.

Walker–Grant School

Grant attended schools in Chatham, Pontiac, Michigan, and at the Wilberforce Educational Institute in Ohio.

WCSU

WCSU-FM, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to Wilberforce, Ohio, United States

Wilberforce Colony

In 1831 the settlement was named Wilberforce in honor of William Wilberforce, the prominent British abolitionist who had led the fight for the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that abolished slavery in most of the British Empire.


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