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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Clapham Sect were a group of upper class ( mostly evangelical Anglican ) social reformers who lived around the Common.

They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M. P., the Dissenter and Unitarian.

They were very prominent in campaigns for the abolition of slavery and child labour, and for prison reform.

They also promoted missionary activities in Britain's colonies.