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* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist
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It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.
William Wilberforce saw the poor conditions of the locals when he visited Cheddar in 1789.
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.
A number of reformers, such as William Wilberforce in Britain, worked towards the abolition of slavery.
Many young churchmen and others enquiring about their faith visited him and sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, who had recently undergone a crisis of conscience and religious conversion as he was contemplating leaving politics.
Newton became an ally of his friend William Wilberforce, leader of the Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade.
William Wilberforce received much of the credit although the groundwork was an anti-slavery essay by Thomas Clarkson.
Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.
* July 29 – William Wilberforce – British Politician and Abolitionist ( b. 1759 )
* May 30 – William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner.
* April 21 – Barbara Ann Spooner Wilberforce, Wife of British Abolitionist William Wilberfoce ( b. 1777 )
* December 24 – Barbara Ann Spooner Wilberforce, Wife of English Abolitionist William Wilberforce ( d. 1847 )
* August 24 – William Wilberforce, British abolitionist ( d. 1833 )
Freestanding statues and plaques commemorate College benefactors such as James Wood, Master 1815-39, as well as alumni including William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and William Gilbert.
* Henry William Wilberforce ( 1807 – 1873 ), the youngest son of William Wilberforce, Catholic convert, journalist and author
* Lionel Robert Wilberforce ( 1861 – 1944 ), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
* Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce ( 1907 – 2003 ), great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, famous Law Lord
William and 1759
* 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( b. 1759 )
In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).
* 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1806 )
* 1759 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1834 )
* 1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange ( d. 1759 )
* 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( d. 1850 )
* William Pitt the Younger ( 1759 – 1806 ), who also served as Prime Minister ; never married.
* January 23 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )
* July 4 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( b. 1759 )
* December 22 – William Plumer, U. S. lawyer and lay preacher ( b. 1759 )
* January 12 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )
* June 27 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier ( d. 1759 )
Johnson's advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British capture in 1759 ).
William Hawkins revised the play again in 1759.
* Caratacus is the subject of William Mason's 1759 lyric poem of the same name and the 1776 play based on it.
* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade
William Wilberforce ( 24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833 ) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.
Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.
** William Pelham ( bookseller ) ( 1759 – 1827 )
William Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806 ) was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
" Pitt, William ( 1759 – 1806 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ); online 2009 ; accessed 12 Sept 2011
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* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )
* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )
* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )
* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )
* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )
* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )
* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )
* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )
* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )
* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875
* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )
* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )
* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )
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