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See also:WILBERFORCE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1759—1833) , See also:English philanthropist whose name is chiefly associated with the abolition of the slave See also:trade, was descended from a See also:Yorkshire See also:family which possessed the See also:manor of Wilberfoss in the See also:East See also:Riding from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. till the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century. He was the only son of See also:Robert Wilberforce, member of a commercial See also:house at See also:Hull, by his wife See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Bird of See also:Barton, Oxon, and was See also:born at Hull on the 24th of See also:August 1759. It was from his See also:mother that he inherited both his feeble See also:frame and his many See also:rich See also:mental endowments. He was not a diligent See also:scholar, but at the See also:grammar school of Hull his skill in elocution attracted the See also:attention of the See also:master. Before he had completed his tenth See also:year he lost his See also:father and was transferred to the care of a paternal See also:uncle at See also:Wimbledon; but in his twelfth year he returned to Hull, and soon afterwards was placed under the care of the master of the endowed school of Pocklington. Here his love of social pleasures made him neglectful of his studies, but he entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in See also:October 1766. See also:Left by the See also:death of his grandfather and uncle the possessor of an See also:independent See also:fortune under his mother's See also:sole guardianship, he was somewhat idle at the university, though he acquitted himself in the See also:examinations with See also:credit; but in his serious years he " could not look back without unfeigned remorse " on the opportunities he had then neglected. In 1780 he was elected to the House of See also:Commons for his native See also:town, his success being due to his See also:personal popularity and his lavish See also:expenditure. He soon found his way into the fast See also:political society of See also:London, and at the See also:club at Goosetrees renewed an acquaintance begun at Cambridge with See also:Pitt, which ripened into a friendship of the closest See also:kind. In the autumn of 1783 he set out with Pitt on a tour in See also:France; and after his return his eloquence proved of See also:great assistance to Pitt in his struggle against the See also:majority of the House of Commons. In 1784 Wilberforce was elected for both Hull and Yorkshire. and took his seat for the latter See also:constituency.
A See also:journey to See also:Nice in the autumn of the same year with his friend Dr See also:Isaac See also:Milner (1750-182o), who had been a master at Hull grammar school when Wilberforce was there as a boy, and had since made a reputation as a mathematician, and afterwards became See also:president of Queens' College, Cambridge, and See also:dean of See also:Carlisle, led to his See also:conversion to Evangelical See also:Christianity and the See also:adoption of more serious views of See also:life. The See also:change had a marked effect on his public conduct. In the beginning of 1787 he busied himself with the See also:establishment of a society for the See also:reformation of See also:manners. About the same time he made the acquaintance of Thotnas See also:Clarkson, and began the agitation against the slave trade. Pitt entered heartily into their plans, and recommended Wilberforce to undertake the guidance of the project as a subject suited to his See also:character and talents. While Clarkson conducted the agitation throughout the See also:country, Wilberforce took every opportunity in the House of Commons of exposing the evils and horrors of the trade. In 1788, however, a serious illness compelled him to retire for some months from public life, and the introduction of the subject in See also:parliament therefore devolved on Pitt, whose representations were so far successful that an See also:act was passed providing that the number of slaves carried in See also:ships should be in proportion to the See also:tonnage. On the 12th of May of the following year Wilberforce, in co-operation with Pitt, brought the subject of abolition again before the House of Commons; but the See also:friends of the planters succeeded in getting the See also:matter deferred. On the 27th of See also:January following Wilberforce carried a See also:motion for referring to a See also:special See also:committee the further examination of witnesses, but after full inquiry the motion for abolition in See also:April 1791 was lost by 163 votes to 88. In the following April he carried a motion for See also:gradual abolitionby 238 to 85 votes; but in the House of Lords the discussion was finally postponed till the following session. Notwithstanding his unremitting labours in educating public See also:opinion and See also:annual motions in the House of Commons, it was not till 1807, the year following Pitt's death, that the first great step towards the abolition of See also:slavery was accomplished. When the See also:anti-slavery society was formed in 1823, Wilberforce and Clarkson became See also:vice-presidents; but before their aim was accomplished Wilberforce had retired from public life, and the Emancipation See also:Bill was not passed till August 1833, a See also:month after his death.
In 1797 Wilberforce published A Pratical View of the Prevailing Religious See also:System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of this Country Contrasted with Real Christianity, which within See also:half a year went through five See also:editions and was afterwards translated into See also:French, See also:Italian, Dutch and See also:German. In the same year (May 1797) he married See also:Barbara See also:Ann Spooner and took a house at Clapham, where he became one of the leaders of what was known as the " Clapham See also:Sect " of Evangelicals, including Henry See also:Thornton, See also:Charles See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, E. J. See also:Eliot, Zacchary See also:Macaulay and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Stephen. It was in connexion with this See also:group that he then occupied himself with a See also:plan for a religious periodical which should admit a moderate degree of political and See also:common intelligence," the result being the See also:appearance in January 18e1 of the See also:Christian Observer. He also interested himself in a variety of schemes for the See also:advancement of the social and religious welfare of the community, including the establishment of the Association for the Better Observance of See also:Sunday, the See also:foundation, with Hannah More (q.v.), of See also:schools at See also:Cheddar, See also:Somersetshire, a project for opening a school in every See also:parish for the religious instruction of See also:children, a plan for the See also:education of the children of the See also:lower classes, a bill for securing better salaries to curates, and a method for disseminating, by See also:government help, Christianity in See also:India. In parliament he was a supporter of See also:parliamentary reform and of See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation. In 1812, on See also:account of failing See also:health, he exchanged the See also:representation of Yorkshire for that of a constituency which would make less demands on his time, and was returned for Bramber, See also:Sussex. In 1825 he retired from the House of Commons, and the following year settled at High-See also:wood See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, near See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill Hill, "just beyond the disk of the See also:metropolis." He died at London on the 29th of See also:July 1833, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey See also:close to Pitt, See also:Fox and See also:Canning. In Westminster Abbey a statue was erected to his memory, and in Yorkshire a See also:county See also:asylum for the See also:blind, was founded, in his See also:honour. A See also:column was also erected to him by his townsmen of Hull. Wilberforce left four sons, two of whom, See also:Samuel and Robert Isaac, are noticed separately. The youngest, Henry William Wilberforce (1807-1873), was educated at See also:Oriel College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and was president of the Oxford See also:Union. He took orders in the English See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, but in 185o became a Roman Catholic. He was an active journalist and edited the Catholic See also:Standard.
The See also:chief authorities of the career of William Wilberforce are his Life (5 vols., 1838) by his sons, Robert Isaac and Samuel, and his See also:Correspondence (184o) also published by his sons A smaller edition of the Life was published by Samuel Wilberforce in 1868. See also The private papers of William Wilberforce, edited by A. M. Wilberforce (1897) ; See also:Sir James Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical See also:Biography (1849) ; J. C. Colquhoun, Wilberforce, His Friends and Times (1866); John See also:Stoughton, William Wilberforce (188o); J. J. See also:Gurney, See also:Familiar See also:Sketch of Wilberforce (1838); and J. S. See also:Hartford, Recollections of W. Wilberforce (1864).
End of Article: WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM (1759—1833)
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