Wilberforce, William: William Wilberforce: A Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)Ford, Charles H
William Wilberforce was the son of a wealthy merchant who died when William was still young. He was taken into the guardianship of his uncle and aunt but was later returned to the care of his mother. Wilberforce studied at Cambridge University where he became friends with the future Prime Min...
after a successful (if dangerous) operation in 1836. This cure allowed him once more to read and write with ease. Unfortunately, some of his reading was the recently publishedLife of William Wilberforcein which some embarrassing correspondence from the 1790s was revealed. Clarkson was not seen a...
On January 3, 1985, soprano Leontyne Price stepped on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to sing her signature role for the final time, ending what had been nearly 24 years asprima donna assoluta. While the review of much of the evening’s production ofAidawas far from kind, its commenta...
he drowned himself in the Swan River at Claremont a couple of years after the publication of his debut novel,The Pleasure Bird.After that, I kept on running into him. I found out he’d taught at Collie Senior High School in the South-West, where I’d gone to school in the 1990s. ...
Sect. Sir James Stephen was the under secretary at the Colonial Office, and with another Clapham member, William Wilberforce, was responsible for the passage of the Slavery Abolition Bill in 1833. In 1849, Sir Stephen was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of ...
Ioan Gruffuddis a Welsh actor, voice artist, and director. He is known for his roles like Harold Godfrey Lowe, Fifth Officer of the RMS Titanic, inTitanic, Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic inFantastic FourandFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Lancelot inKing Arthur, William Wilberforce in...
In the meantime, in amongst all the travelling and publishing, Street's architecture practise was growing. Street became Diocesan Architect of Oxford, under Bishop Wilberforce. He established his base of operation in Oxford, where he designed the Oxford Diocesan Theological College at Cuddesdon, and...
Tomkins, Stephen. William Wilberforce, a biography.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)Moore, Patricia
William Wilberforce, British politician and philanthropist who from 1787 was prominent in the struggle to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery itself in British overseas possessions. His efforts led to the rescinding of the practice in the