Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, devout Christian, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition...
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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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Matilda International Hospital (redirect from Granville and Matilda Sharp)
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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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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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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Cline Town (redirect from Granville Town, Province of Freedom)
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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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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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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by twelve men; including prominent campaigners Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, who, as Anglicans, were able to be more influential in Parliament...
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Simon Liberal 1931 Liberal National 1940 by-election William Woolley Liberal National 1945 Granville Maynard Sharp Labour 1950 Constituency abolished...
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Votes % ±% Unionist Richard Colvin 15,300 59.9 −12.7 Liberal Gilbert Granville Sharp 10,228 40.1 +19.5 Majority 5,072 19.8 −32.8 Turnout 25,528 63.5 +11...
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Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (b. 1775) 1813 – Granville Sharp, English activist (b. 1735) 1815 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Say's law on the behaviour of markets Granville Sharp (1735–1813), abolitionist and brother of William William Sharp (1729–1810), surgeon Thomas Sherlock...
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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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donated money to support the lawyers for both sides of the argument. Granville Sharp, an abolitionist layman who continually sought test cases against the...
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Constitutionalist Winston Churchill 19,843 58.9 N/A Liberal Gilbert Granville Sharp 10,080 29.9 −17.2 Labour J R McPhie 3,768 11.2 New Majority 9,763 29...
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G-sharp, G♯ or G# may refer to: G-sharp minor, a musical key G-sharp major, a musical key G♯ (musical note) Granville Sharp, an eighteenth-century abolitionist...
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John Naimbanna (redirect from Henry Granville Naimbana)
became a Christian, adopting the forenames Henry and Granville to honour Henry Thornton and Granville Sharp. Naimbanna died of unknown causes in July 1793....
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Georgia. Oglethorpe later collaborated in opposing the slave trade with Granville Sharp, whom Clarkson describes as "the father of the cause in England". Slavery...
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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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legally be a slave in England. However, many campaigners, including Granville Sharp, took the view that the ratio decidendi of the Somerset case meant...
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