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William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.
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William and Wilberforce
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 MP
* Mr. William Pitt, MP ( 1735 – 1746 )
William Pitt, MP ( 1746 – 1766 )
On his return to England, William was elected to Parliament in 1832 as Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Newark, partly through the influence of the local patron, the Duke of Newcastle.
* William Henry Gladstone ( 1840 – 1891 ), MP.
** William Cochrane, Scottish MP in the British Parliament
* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist
The current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is the Right Honourable William Hague MP.
" The Pankhursts hosted a variety of guests including U. S. abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Indian MP Dadabhai Naoroji, socialist activists Herbert Burrows and Annie Besant, and French anarchist Louise Michel.
* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone
* Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet ( 1804 – 1889 ), MP, elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone
* John Neilson Gladstone ( 1807 – 1863 ), MP and brother of William Ewart Gladstone
* William Henry Gladstone ( 1840 – 1892 ), MP and classical musician, eldest son of William Ewart Gladstone
Swedish Democratic MP William Petzäll was persuaded to leave the party on 26 September 2011 while still retaining his parliamentary seat.
Salford's case, however, was considered favourably by the Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, MP for a neighbouring constituency of Manchester.
He renewed his friendship with William Wilberforce, now MP for Hull, with whom he frequently met in the gallery of the House of Commons.
The Library is in a Georgian building on Thames Street with a double blue plaque to two former residents, the singer John Beard and William Ewart MP, the Politician behind the Public Libraries Act 1850.
* William Ewart MP ( politician and promoter of free libraries )
On a Sunday afternoon in May, 1798 William Pitt, the then Prime Minister, who lived in Bowling-Green House on the heath, fought a bloodless battle with William Tierney, MP.
The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley ( d 1798 ), then to George's son William Tufnell ( d 1809 ), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 into a fortune owned by Mary Carleton ( daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d. 1829 ).
* William Smith ( abolitionist ) ( 1756 – 1835 ), grandfather of Florence Nightingale, dissenter and British MP
* William Smith ( MP for Ripon ), MP for Ripon
William and abolitionist
" Alcott was an abolitionist and a friend of the more radical William Lloyd Garrison.
In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York.
As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.
In early 1859, abolitionist U. S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US $ 1, 200.
Starting in 1832, abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison organized anti-slavery associations which encouraged the full participation of women.
The massacre was again remembered in 1858 in a celebration organized William Cooper Nell, an African American abolitionist who saw the death of Crispus Attucks as an opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War.
* William Allen ( 1770-1843 ), Quaker, philanthropist, scientist, abolitionist, and pioneer of girls ' education – lived most of his life in Stoke Newington.
The county was named for William E. Dodge, a New York U. S. Representative and businessman, abolitionist, and " Carpetbagger " who purchased large tracks of timberland in the area after the Civil War.
Fanny's father ( Florence's maternal grandfather ) was the abolitionist and Unitarian William Smith.
The abolitionist movement reached a peak with the activities of William Lloyd Garrison, who was born in Newburyport and raised in its anti-slavery climate.
Originally a dwelling, the ground floor was converted to commercial use around 1845 by William Allinson, a druggist, local historian, and leading Quaker abolitionist.
* William Goodell, abolitionist
* William Brock ( pastor ) ( 1807 – 1875 ), first minister of Bloomsbury Chapel, London, abolitionist and supporter of missionary societies
: William Jessup, judge and abolitionist
During this visit, abolitionist leader William Forster died and was buried here.
The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison criticized Jefferson's inaction at the time, as have the Jefferson historians Merrill Peterson, Gary Nash and Edmund S. Morgan since the late twentieth century.
The same year, William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery publication The Liberator reprinted a Boston abolitionist pamphlet containing a poem entitled " The Liberty Bell ", which noted that, at that time, despite its inscription, the bell did not proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants of the land.
William Lloyd Garrison ( December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879 ) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
* William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the Liberator, an abolitionist periodical.
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