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    William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade...
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  • Wilberforce may refer to: Wilberforce (name), for people (and fictional characters) with the name William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician...
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    Samuel Wilberforce, FRS (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop in the Church of England, and the third son of William Wilberforce. Known...
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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...
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    Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. She was born in Birches Green,...
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    Gruggen and Rev. Hutton) and Wilberforce (named after the 18th/19th-century anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce who attended the school). The...
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    pursuing a career as an author, writing biographies of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce. He also held several directorships, and worked as...
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  • Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it...
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    become what Lord Minto called "the Atlas of our reeling globe". William Wilberforce said, "For personal purity, disinterestedness and love of this country...
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    William Wilberforce Kadhumbula Gabula Nadiope IV (born 1 November 1988), the Gabula of Bugabula, is the reigning Kyabazinga of Busoga, a constitutional...
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  • William Wilberforce (21 July 1798 – 26 May 1879) was a British lawyer, the eldest son of William Wilberforce. He was briefly a Member of Parliament in...
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    Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull. It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work...
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  • Sir William Wilberforce Kadhumbula Nadiope III (born in 1911) was the Prince of Bugabula, his father was Yosiya Nadiope who was the Bugabula Chief. He...
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    and fairness for all human beings. Their most famous member was William Wilberforce, widely commemorated in monuments and credited with hastening the...
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  • Wilberforce is a name, both a surname and a given name. It is also the name of an English family, including William Wilberforce. Notable people with the...
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    continuance of the slave trade". In his speech to the House, William insulted William Wilberforce, the leading abolitionist, saying: "the proponents of the...
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    The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honoring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure...
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  • 1832, holding the seat until 1837, when William Wilberforce defeated him. He regained it in 1838 when Wilberforce was unseated on petition. He had an interest...
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    / Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2005) and its 2007 sequel, William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006), Tony Blair in W. (2008), and Adam Lockwood...
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    three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr...
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  • Amazing Grace (2006 film) (category Cultural depictions of William IV)
    abolitionist campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through...
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    the North Algona and Wilberforce townships were amalgamated. Wilberforce Township was named in 1851, to honour William Wilberforce. The township contains...
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    in the English Civil Wars. Its 18th-century Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, took a prominent part in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain...
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    largest slave trader and centre of the largest abolitionist movement. William Wilberforce had written in his diary in 1787 that his great purpose in life was...
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    and of the African slave trade. Fellow abolitionist of slavery, William Wilberforce, took Hartley's place as MP for Hull in 1780 and was co-Member during...
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  • great-great-grandfather was the abolitionist William Wilberforce, a connection which had much influence upon him.: 260  Wilberforce spent the first seven years of his...
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    about a house in Wimpole Street.) William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague. UK Retail Price Index inflation...
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    Isaac Wilberforce (19 December 1802 – 3 February 1857) was an English clergyman and writer. He was second son of abolitionist William Wilberforce, and...
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    in 1856, the community was also named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for the abolition of slavery and achieved the end of...
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    subsequently renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 (when it was renamed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008). The...
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