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16 unusual facts about William Wilberforce


Animal welfare science

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was founded in 1824 by a group of twenty-two reformers led by Richard Martin MP (who would thereby earn the nickname Humanity Dick), William Wilberforce MP and the Reverend Arthur Broome.

Brighstone

Bishop Samuel Wilberforce became rector in 1830, and used to entertain his father, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

British and Foreign School Society

This was supported by several evangelical and non-conformist Christians, including William Wilberforce.

Charles Hulbert

At the request of William Wilberforce and Henry Grey Bennet (who was then Shrewsbury's local Member of Parliament) in 1808 he drew up a report on the management of factories, as an answer to a claim made in parliament that manufactories were hotbeds of vice.

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.

Great Pulteney Street

Famous former residents of the street have included the novelist Jane Austen and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

Hull History Centre

Special Collections: collections organised by subject of particular interest to the area, including William Wilberforce and Slavery, Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), Whales and Whaling, Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), Fosters & Andrews (organ builders), and Amy Johnson.

Melplash

The construction of Christ's Church, Melplash between 1845 and 1846 was funded by James Bandinel (who was at one time secretary to William Wilberforce) in memory of his father, who had been vicar of Melplash and the neighbouring village of Netherbury.

Reformation of Manners

William Wilberforce was the instigator and leader in the second Reformation.

William Wilberforce was the hero of the Second Reformation of Manners which began in 1787.

The Black Jacobins

For example, James writes skeptically of British efforts to suppress the slave trade by using William Wilberforce as a figurehead.

Victoria, Guyana

The first church built there, a Congregationalist church, named after William Wilberforce, the abolitionist, was erected in 1845.

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.

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.

Winterbourne, Gloucestershire

St Michael's was founded in 1813 by the educational reformers Hannah More and William Wilberforce.


Alexander Crummell

From 1849 to 1853, Crummell studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, sponsored by Benjamin Brodie, William Wilberforce, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, James Anthony Froude, and Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Clarkson Memorial

On three of the four sides are carved bas-reliefs, representing William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, both prominent figures in the campaign against the slave trade, and a manacled slave in a beseeching attitude.

Dallas Willard

Willard has a recommended reading page on his website listing specific titles by Thomas a Kempis, William Law, Frank Laubach, William Wilberforce, Richard Baxter, Charles Finney, Jan Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jeremy Taylor, Richard Foster, E. Stanley Jones, William Penn, Brother Lawrence, Francis de Sales, and others.

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.

Empire of Ivory

Temeraire and Laurence continue to develop their notions of draconic equality in British society and find common cause with William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in exchange for assistance from prominent political leaders.

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.

Teston

He was a friend of Charles Middleton, William Pitt and William Wilberforce and he worked with them for the abolition of slavery.

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.

William Savery

At Bath, he met the English religious writer and philanthropist, Hannah More, and was introduced by her to the preeminent abolitionist of the time, William Wilberforce.

Yorkshire Day

It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974", The date alludes to the Battle of Minden, and also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, had campaigned.