* Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull, England

Banda studied in the high school section of Wilberforce Institute, an African American AME college now known as Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio, and graduated in 1928.

The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation ( WISE ) is located in Oriel Chambers on the High Street in Hull's Old Town, adjacent to Wilberforce House.

Students at other historically black schools, such as Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute and Wilberforce University, followed suit.

Adjoining the site is the University of Hull's Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation which conducts research into historic and contemporary forms of slavery.

Charlotte Maneye married the Revd Marshall Maxeke, and they did missionary work for the AME Church in South Africa, and in 1908 they founded the Wilberforce Institute in the Transvaal, modelled on her American alma mater.

From 1873 to 1880, he fought against racially segregated schools as president of the Wilberforce Educational Institute and was appointed coroner for Kent County, Ontario in 1874, the first Black man to hold that office.

Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and a friend of Disraeli's, spoke strongly against the measure and implied that Russell was paying off the Jews for " helping " elect him.

Evangelicals were also concerned with social reform during this period — in England the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery.

The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Today, it is sometimes further reported that Huxley applied the example in a now-legendary debate over Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species with the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, held at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford on June 30, 1860.

They are described by the historian Stephen Tomkins as " a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its centre of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage ".

* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist

The Church Mission Society, first known as the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, was founded in 1799 by evangelical Anglicans centred around the anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce.

As a cover, the Professor convinces the naive Mrs. Wilberforce that the group are an amateur string quintet using the room for rehearsal space.

He renewed his friendship with William Wilberforce, now MP for Hull, with whom he frequently met in the gallery of the House of Commons.

In the 20 June 1939 episode, Fibber Has a Toothache, their dentist is Dr. Gildersleeve, although Molly calls him Wilbur, McGee calls him " Wilberforce ", and he once had a " thing " for Molly, so it might be a relative to Throckmorton ?.

Clapham is famous as the home of Holy Trinity Clapham the Georgian Church on Clapham Common, from where The Clapham Sect led by William Wilberforce and a group of upper class evangelical Christians campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in the 19th century.

The community was named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for abolition of slavery and achieved the end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom and its empire.

Barbauld's most significant political texts are: An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ( 1790 ), Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ( 1791 ), Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation ( 1793 ), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ( 1812 ).

In the following year, 1791, after one of William Wilberforce's many efforts to suppress the slave trade failed to pass Parliament, Barbauld wrote her Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade.

In 1787 William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and a group of friends, mostly of Anglican evangelicals, formed an association to carry forward a campaign for abolition in Parliament and throughout the country.

Wilberforce took up this cause but he was ageing and so in 1821 he appealed to Thomas Buxton to press in Parliament for abolition of slavery within the colonies and dominions.

James Stephen came to be regarded as the chief architect of the Slave Trade Act 1807, providing William Wilberforce with the legal mastermind he needed for its drafting.

He was also responsible for ensuring that Wilberforce ’ s Bill on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which had still not passed its final stages in the House of Lords when Grenville ’ s ministry fell, would not " fall between the two ministries " and be rejected in a snap division.

After graduating from Wilberforce University with a degree in psychology, Bradshaw turned to music for a living.

He was in Oxford on 30 June 1860 to present a paper on storms and attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at which Samuel Wilberforce attacked Darwin's theory.

Leaders of these campaigns included William Carey and William Wilberforce, and both appeared to be motivated by their love for the Indian people and their desire to introduce Indians to Christianity.

The organisation was founded in 1824 ( without the " royal " prefix ) as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; it was established by a group of 22 reformers led by Richard Martin MP, William Wilberforce MP and the Reverend Arthur Broome in ‘ Old Slaughter ’ s Coffee House ’, St Martin's Lane, near the Strand.

All are or were in the former slave states and territories of the U. S. except for Central State University ( Ohio ), Wilberforce University ( Ohio ), Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Lewis College of Business ( Detroit, Michigan ), Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania ), and now-defunct Western University ( Kansas ).

( Silas helped his nephew Sebopioa Molema get to the United States about 1904 to study law at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Wilberforce had supported the construction of the museum as the centre for the science departments, for the study of the wonders of God's creations.

In 1909 she met Octavia Wilberforce, a young woman whose fervent desire to study medicine was thwarted by a family that felt intellectualism and professional careers were ' unsexing ' for women.

Sarah Wilberforce ( c. 1757 – 1816 ) was the eldest sister of William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), the Abolitionist of Slavery, and Barbara ( 1799 – 1821 ) was his daughter.

She published a poem on Slavery in 1788, and was for many years a friend of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and a leading abolitionist, who drew her into the group of prominent campaigners against the slave trade such as Wilberforce, Charles Middleton and James Ramsay, based at Teston, Kent.

Well-known is the Wilberforce pendulum, where the oscillation alternates between an elongation of a vertical spring and the rotation of an object at the end of that spring.

* Wilberforce ( cat ), a cat who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987

While at Cambridge, he befriended the young William Wilberforce, who became a lifelong friend and political ally in Parliament.

William Wilberforce was a frequent visitor to the area as his close friend, William Pitt the younger, lived at Holwood Park.

Run according to Socialist principles and highly controversial at the time, the Pitt Town Village Settlement and similar settlements in Bega and Wilberforce are seen today as a significant step toward unionism and the labour movement in Australia.

The former residence in Wilberforce of Charles Young, a 19th-century US Army officer who taught at Wilberforce, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Central State University originated as a commercial, normal and industrial department established at Wilberforce in the late 19th century.

Wilberforce is located at ( 39. 715739 ,-83. 880022 ).

The Conference began with a celebration of the Holy Communion at which Whitehouse of Illinois preached ; Wilberforce of Oxford later described the sermon as ' wordy but not devoid of a certain impressiveness '.

* Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Along with other Anglo-Catholics, Hope was disturbed by the Gorham judgment and, on 12 March 1850, a meeting was held at his house in Curzon Street, London which was attended by fourteen leading Tractarians including: Badeley, Henry Edward Manning and Archdeacon Robert Isaac Wilberforce.

In a speech at Wilberforce University in February 1948, Rickey recounted a secret meeting allegedly held by baseball officials at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago on August 28, 1946.

Marshall further records that Rickey identified the meeting and the report shortly after his speech at Wilberforce and retracted his claim of 15-to-1 opposition to Robinson's entry into Major League Baseball.

He became a Barrister and practised successfully at the Chancery Bar from 1932 to 1940 and was good friends with Richard ( later Lord ) Wilberforce.

His mother wanted him to go to medical school, so Still pursued a Bachelor of Science degree program at Wilberforce University, a historically black college in Ohio.

William Wilberforce Still ( 1854 – 1914 ) graduated from Lincoln University and subsequently practiced law in Philadelphia ; Robert George Still ( 1861 – 1896 ), was a journalist who owned a print shop on Pine at 11th Street in central Philadelphia and Frances Ellen Still ( 1857 – 1930 ) became a kindergarten teacher ( she was named after poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who lived with the Stills before her marriage ).