• Elizabeth Heyrick (née Coltman; 4 December 1769 – 18 October 1831) was an English philanthropist and campaigner against the slave trade. She supported...
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    Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, and Anne Knight. Jamaican mixed-race campaigners...
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    British women by Elizabeth Heyrick". The British Library. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-23. "Elizabeth Heyrick and The Birmingham...
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    American politician Elizabeth Anna Hendrickson (1884–1946), Afro-American civil right and political activist Elizabeth Heyrick (1769–1831), English abolitionist...
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    conservative. He disapproved of women anti-slavery activists such as Elizabeth Heyrick, who organised women's abolitionist groups in the 1820s, protesting:...
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  • called the Female Society for Birmingham), along with Lucy Townsend, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, and Sophia Sturge. The group 'promoted the sugar boycott...
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    Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, Joseph Sturge, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick and Anne Knight...
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    women and children were taken away from their families. In 1824, Elizabeth Heyrick published a pamphlet titled Immediate not Gradual Abolition, in which...
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    Macaulay (British) David Livingstone (Scottish) Samuel Johnson (British) Elizabeth Heyrick (British) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German/British)...
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    George Stephen, along with other more radical abolitionists such as Elizabeth Heyrick, was a fierce advocate of immediate emancipation rather than the gradual...
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    Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves. Other founding members included Elizabeth Heyrick, Sophia Sturge and Sarah Wedgwood (daughter of Josiah Wedgwood). By...
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  • the crucial role of women's societies and women activists such as Elizabeth Heyrick. These societies circulated antislavery publications and petitions...
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  • friend Elizabeth Heyrick continued campaigning against slavery, including founding The Humming Bird, the first anti-slavery periodical. Heyrick and Watts...
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  • married Ann, daughter of John Heyrick the town clerk of Leicester; they had eight sons. The abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick was Ann's sister-in-law. The...
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    Wilberforce, Henry Brougham, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, and Anne Knight. Jamaican mixed-race campaigners...
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    outlook regarded slavery as a mortal sin to be ended forthwith. Elizabeth Heyrick's 1824 pamphlet "Immediate, not Gradual, Abolition" gave the tone to...
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    the first joint secretaries, while other founding members included Elizabeth Heyrick, Sophia Sturge and Sarah Wedgwood. The society was supported by the...
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  • Society. The maltreatment of cattle at the Smithfield Market prompted Elizabeth Heyrick in 1823 to publish anonymously a stinging rebuke to those acting cruelly...
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    abolitionism; in the year of the school's founding, for example, Elizabeth Heyrick published a pamphlet entitled Immediate, not Gradual Abolition, which...
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  • Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury – George Herbert – Robert Herrick – Thomas Heyrick – Thomas Heywood – N. Hookes – John Hoskyns – Anne Howard – Sir Robert...
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  • Leicester in 1572 and 1593. He married as his second wife Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heyrick, with whom he had 4 sons and a daughter. He was succeeded...
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    W[illiam] Place, J[ohn] Starkey, T[homas] Bassett, R[obert] Pawlett, S[amuel] Heyrick, and G[eorge] Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborn, 1669, OCLC 9515015...
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    (colonist) Alexander Henderson Matthew Henry Philip Henry Charles Herle Richard Heyrick Gasper Hickes Francis Higginson Arthur Hildersham Robert Hill (clergyman)...
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    prosperous goldsmith. He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester, who had bought...
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    Henry Herrick, sometimes spelled Henry Hayrick or Henry Heyrick or Henry Heyricke was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower house...
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  • Thomas Herrick, sometimes spelled Thomas Hayrick or Thomas Heyrick or Thomas Heyricke was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the elected lower...
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  • William Bagshaw Stevens (1779–1800) William Boultbee Sleath (1800–1830) John Heyrick Macaulay (1830–1840) Thomas Williamson Peile (1841–1854) Steuart Adolphus...
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    Catlyn, Chief Justice to Elizabeth I, acquired the site from Bellowe and Broxholme, and it was later bought by Robert Herrick (Heyrick), three-times mayor...
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  • Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622. Herrick was the son of John Heyrick of Leicester and was baptised on 9 December 1562. His father was an ironmonger...
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  • services to surf lifesaving and the community. Group Captain Murray James Heyrick – Royal New Zealand Air Force. Jean Margaret Hill JP – of Hastings. For...
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