In grateful memory of three generations of the family of WILBERFORCE. William the Emancipator - who is buried in the Abbey. Samuel, Dean of Westminster afterwards the great Bishop of Oxford & ...

Julie and William Wilberforce in front of the treehouse ... hunting lodge in the Forest of Knaresborough, had come into the family through the marriage of William’s grandfather in 1731 and ...

Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said ... He was born to a wealthy merchant family and gained admission to St. John’s College at Cambridge through his family ...

William Wilberforce has received much of the credit ... Wilberforce was born in Hull in 1759 into a wealthy family. His family's money and prominence got him a seat in parliament when he was ...

Others document and reflect on the culmination of such change. A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by William ...

William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in the port town of Hull in North-East England. His family were merchants trading with Russia and the Baltic States. He had a privileged background going to ...

William Wilberforce has received much of the credit ... Wilberforce was born in Hull in 1759 into a wealthy family. His family's money and prominence got him a seat in parliament when he was ...