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    Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave...
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    Granville Sharp Pattison (1791–1851) was a Scottish anatomist. Professor of Anatomy at London University, after losing two British positions, he emigrated...
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  • Gilbert Granville Sharp (19 February 1894 – 1 November 1968), was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister. He was the born in Mafeking, South...
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    testament of Granville Sharp, the husband of Matilda Lincolne Sharp. Granville Sharp was a successful banker descended from the well-known Sharp family of...
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    news of the massacre to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp, who worked unsuccessfully to have the ship's crew prosecuted for murder...
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    Clarkson and a group of activists against the slave trade, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take...
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    in his life, Hoare wrote 20 plays. He also compiled the Memoirs of Granville Sharp (1820), based on the British abolitionist's manuscripts, family documents...
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    Alfred Sharp (1867–c. 1918), a coal factor. Her older brother, Ernest Granville Sharp (c. 1896–1916), was killed in the Battle of Gommecourt in 1916. After...
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  • Granville Maynard Sharp (5 January 1906 – 8 August 1997) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Sharp was educated at Cleckheaton Grammar...
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    it portrays the English abolitionist and musician Granville Sharp and his extended family. The Sharp family are depicted on their barge on the River Thames...
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    form the nucleus of the Shaw–Hellier Collection, and the abolitionist Granville Sharp. The catalogue accompanying the National Portrait Gallery exhibition...
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    wives also were part of the settlement. Granville Town (named for its benefactor and patron Granville Sharp) was established as the first town of the...
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  • company came about because of the work of the ardent abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Thomas's brother John Clarkson...
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    actress known for the Carry On films. Granville Sharp (1735–1813), abolitionist and brother of William William Sharp (1729–1810), surgeon Thomas Sherlock...
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    William Sharp (1729 – 17 March 1810) was an English physician reported to have acted as surgeon to King George III. With his brother Granville Sharp, he was...
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    who later became prominent campaigners, such as Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp. As Anglicans they were able to be more influential in Parliament than...
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    against slavery. These included influential men such as James Ramsay and Granville Sharp, many Quakers, and other nonconformists. The movement had been gathering...
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    an organisation set up by Jonah Hanway and the British abolitionist Granville Sharp. These black people were African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Africans...
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    Equiano informed abolitionists such as Granville Sharp about the slave trade; that year he was the first to tell Sharp about the Zong massacre, which was...
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    preached on board H.M.S. Leander in the Bay of Gibraltar, 1791 Letter to Granville Sharp, suggested by the present Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island...
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  • abolitionists, filed a Habeas corpus case with the courts and enlisted Granville Sharp to aid Somerset. The case, Somerset v Stewart, saw powerful interests...
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  • Thomas Granville Sharp (born 7 November 1977) is an English cricketer born at Truro in Cornwall whoo has played in the Cornwall Cricket League . Before...
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    However, slavery was reinstated in 1751. He also encouraged his friends Granville Sharp and Hannah More to pursue the cause vigorously. Soon after his death...
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    man who was to be shipped back to the West Indies. Cugoano contacted Granville Sharp, a well-known abolitionist, who was able to have Demane removed from...
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    Mary Sharp (1778–1812), also called Mary Lloyd-Baker or Mary Lloyd Baker, was a niece of the British abolitionist Granville Sharp (1735 – 1813). Mary Sharp...
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    towards abolishing slavery throughout the world. Some of the group, Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, were responsible for the...
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  • Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen (Zürich: Bürgkli) Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick Georg Andreas Sorge – Anleitung...
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    house of William Sharp, a surgeon who treated poor Londoners at his house free of charge. There, he was seen by William's brother Granville. William said...
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    evils of the institution. Later in life he became associated with Granville Sharp and Hannah More, two of the early founders of the abolitionist movement...
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    to fund lawyers for both sides of the argument. An activist layman, Granville Sharp, who continually sought test cases against the legal justifications...
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