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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce
Richard Orme Wilberforce (March 11, 1907 — February 15, 2003) – popularly known as Lord Wilberforce was a Law Lord in the House of Lords from 1964 to 1982.
Richard Wilberforce was the great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist, and son of a judge on the Lahore High Court.
William Wilberforce William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade.
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 Richard Bethell Westbury - LoveToKnow 1911
RICHARD BETHELL WESTBURY, 1ST Baron (1800-1873), lord chancellor of Great Britain, was the son of Dr Richard Bethell, and was born at Bradford, Wilts.
On June 26, 1861, on the death of Lord Campbell, he was created lord high chancellor of Great Britain, with the title of Baron Westbury of Westbury, county Wilts.
The ambition of his life was to set on foot the compilation of a digest of the whole law, but for various reasons this became impracticable.
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 Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury - Biocrawler
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the son of Dr Richard Bethel, and was born at Bradford-upon-Avon, Wilts.
Lord Westbury died on 20 July 1873, within a day of the death of Bishop Wilberforce, his special antagonist in debate.
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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  Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the son of Dr Richard Bethel, and was born at Bradford-upon-Avon, Wilts.
The ambition of his life was to set on foot the compilation of a digest of the whole law, but for various reasons this became impracticable.
Lord Westbury died on 20 July 1873, within a day of the death of Bishop Wilberforce, his special antagonist in debate.
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 Guide to the William Wilberforce Papers, 1782-1837
In 1817, Wilberforce was bothered by the hostile pamphlets of one of his opponents.
Wilberforce wrote to Harrison concerning this matter on Aug. 4, 1817, and discussed the urgency of having one of James Stephen's speeches in answer to Marryatt printed and distributed as soon as possible.
Wilberforce rented his home and let most of his servants go, only keeping a "man and maid and reader." He spend his last few years in staking the waters" at Bath, and in visiting his children and his friends.
library.duke.edu /digitalcollections/rbmscl/wilberf/inv   (2166 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, PC (11 March 1907 – 15 February 2003) was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords from 1964 to 1982.
Then in 1964 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord Appeal in Ordinary, made additionally a life peer as Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Wilberforce was Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1978 and 1994.
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 GENUKI: Swine Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.
In 1242 Alexander de Hilton, a baron of the bishopric of Durham, was lord of Swine and Winestead, and gave nine oxgangs of land to the prioress of Swine.
The site, with all the tithes of the parish, was granted in 1541 to Sir Richard Gresham, and, having again reverted to the Crown by exchange, it was granted in 1553 to Sir John Constable, Knt.
Wilberforce and Smiths, and afterwards became a partner in the banking house of Messrs.
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 Lord Wilberforce
Richard Orme Wilberforce, a retired member of Britain's highest court and keeper of his family's antislavery tradition, died on Saturday at a hospital in London.
Lord Wilberforce was a great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English statesman associated with William Pitt the Younger, the great British prime minister.
Richard Orme Wilberforce was raised in India, the son of a judge of the high court in Lahore under the Raj.
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 Life In Legacy - Week of 02/22/2003
Eleanor Daley - Wife of late Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, who was mayor from 1955 until 1976 running Chicago’s notorious Democratic machine, and who is the mother of current Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, died Feb. 16 of a stroke in Chicago at age 96.
Lord Richard Wilberforce - Senior British judge and great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, whose work led to the abolition of slavery in Britain in 1807, who carried on the family’s concern as joint president of Anti-Slavery International, died Feb. 15 in London at age 95.
Richard H. Benson - Head of the paleobiology department at the Smithsonian from 1997 to 2001, who was a widely known expert on animal forms, establishing the museum’s morphometrics lab (don’t know what that is but it sounds cool!), died Feb. 19 in Washington, DC of a heart attack at age 73.
www.lifeinlegacy.com /2003/WIR20030222.html   (1932 words)

  
 Knight Family - Genealogy and Family History
Born 1659 in Downton, Herefordshire, Richard Knight married Elizabeth Payne in 1692, and died 1745 in Downton, Herefordshire.
Richard built a huge fortune as an ironmaster and strategically married off his children into families which would further benefit the business.
Richard Orlebar and Frederica St.John Rouse-Boughton of Hinwick House, Bedfordshire.
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 A Tractarian at Work, by Briscoe and Mackay (1932)
Randall was ordained by Bishop Wilberforce to the diaconate in 1847, and to the priesthood in 1848.
Samuel Wilberforce, who was consecrated for the bishopric of Oxford on November 30, 1845, soon afterwards became intimate with the Rector of Binfield, and made him one of his examining chaplains.
She was not only a beautiful and attractive girl, but was as well, though the Randalls at the time of the engagement had no inkling of it, a very considerable heiress; and it was only after 'great ructions' that her father would consent to the marriage, which took place on November 6, 1849.
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 Lord Wilberforce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard Orme Wilberforce, a retired member of Britain's highest court and keeper of his family's antislavery tradition, died on Saturday at a hospital in London.
Lord Wilberforce was a great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English statesman associated with William Pitt the Younger, the great British prime minister.
Richard Orme Wilberforce was raised in India, the son of a judge of the high court in Lahore under the Raj.
jolsonbaldwin.com /wilberforce.htm   (510 words)

  
 Wilberforce: Slavery, Religion and Politics, Series One, Parts 1 to 3
Diaries, 1779-1833 (including details of Wilberforce’s visit to France with Pitt in 1783, his Continental tour in 1785, his tour of the Lake District in 1779, and significant entries concerning slavery, religion and the political issues of the day throughout the entire period).
Further evidence about William Wilberforce’s character, and about his role in the parliamentary campaigns against the slave-trade and slavery, is provided in letters written to Robert Wilberforce by his father’s friends after his death.
Wilberforce: Slavery, Religion and Politics, Series Two (one part only) offers further papers of William Wilberforce, together with related slavery and anti-slavery materials, from Wilberforce House, Hull.
www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/wilberforce_series_one_parts_1_to_3/Publishers-Note.aspx   (1243 words)

  
 Britannia Biographies: Richard 'the King-Maker' Neville, 8th Earl of Warwick
Commonly known as the “King-Maker,” Richard Neville was the eldest son of his namesake, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, by Alice daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury.
Richard’s Earldom of Warwick came from his marriage, at the age of six, to the sister of the last of the Beauchamp family who held that title and was, at that time, the richest and most powerful Earldom in England.
Warwick, in spite of his great reputation, was merely a selfish baron of the worst type of the bastard-feudal age of the fifteenth century.
www.britannia.com /bios/lords/warwick8rn.html   (1001 words)

  
 JS Online: Obituaries in the News
He was a great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, whose work led to the abolition of slavery in Britain in 1807.
Richard Wilberforce was chief of the legal division of the Control Commission for Germany 1944-45, and undersecretary of the Control Office for Germany and Austria in 1945-46.
Wilberforce was appointed a judge in 1961 and was elevated to the House of Lords as an appeals judge three years later.
www.jsonline.com /news/nat/feb03/ap-deaths021903.asp?format=print   (1383 words)

  
 Richard Owen - Natural History Museum
Richard Owen gave the dinosaurs their name and brought us the Natural History Museum.
An outstanding naturalist, with a special gift for interpreting fossils, Richard Owen was a remarkable man. He produced a vast array of scientific work, and famously coined the word 'dinosaur.' One of Owen's greatest achievements was his campaign for the natural specimens in the British Museum to be given a new home.
Until 1938 whale carcasses were buried in the Museum grounds so that their flesh would decay leaving only the skeletons.
www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/richard-owen/richard-owen.html   (830 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 23977
Samuel Herbert Wilberforce, son of Sir Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce and Yvette Marie Lenoan, in 1978.
She is the daughter of Sir Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce and Yvette Marie Lenoan.
Anne Catherine Wilberforce, daughter of Sir Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce and Yvette Marie Lenoan, in 1975.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3010
She married Sir Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield, son of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield and Constance Evelyn Primrose, on 8 November 1911.
She is the daughter of Alastair Campbell, 4th Baron Stratheden and Jean Helen St. Clair Anstruther-Gray.
She married, secondly, Lord Richard Charles Percy, son of Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland and Lady Helen Magdalan Gordon-Lennox, in 1979.
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 The Heirs of Thomas Arundell of Wardour
Maj.Charles Richard Neville Bishop son of Frederick Charles Bishop of Shipton Hall Salop m.
Richard Scrupe held land in the time of Edward the Confessor (11th Cent.).
Richard Rivers Thom son of Richard Thom of Bombay m.
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 BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OBSCURE CONTRIBUTORS
At the other end, I regret the relative brevity of the sketch of Edward Wilberforce, who remains overshadowed by others in his well-known extended family--and whose long professional life as a barrister is scarcely touched upon here.
Richard Farnside, keeper of the land revenue account, secretary to the Phrenological Society, one of the managers of the Western Literary and Scientific Institution; proposed Moscati’s lecture there.
In 1860 Edward Wilberforce married Fannie, daughter of Alexander Flash of New Orleans, Louisiana (died 1865 in Mobile, Alabama), a slave-owner and probably a merchant with holdings in Europe.
www.victorianresearch.org /Obscure_contributors.html   (14442 words)

  
 Classics Network -- Essay -- Charles Darwin: A Synopsis of Works and Study
The Baron Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, while descrying the efforts of Darwin congratulated himself in a public speech that he was not descended from a monkey.
The inheritance theorists demonstrate similarily between parents and their offspring; the theorists favouring the environment-causation suggest that the parents pass on the same environment, and hence account for the similarity.They (Richard Herrnstein being a prime example) demonstrate the similarity of IQ between twins, a whopping 85% to the affirmative.
Noam Chomsky: "The Fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's I.Q." from Cognition 1 (1973)
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 The London Times
Wilberforce and their entire family (including William Wilberforce MP, a cousin of the groom) were also present to witness the happy event.
Wilberforce, each for the other, so that, as Major Falstaff so eloquently put it, "even when honour and duty keep them apart they might be together.".
The Duke and Duchess of Marlboro, The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Viscount MacGregor and Lady Prudence, Baron Richard Thomas Milligan and Lady Linda, Vicar and Mrs.
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 WILBERFORCE: SLAVERY, RELIGION AND POLITICS Series One: The Wilberforce Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford Part ...
There is a substantial correspondence with dissenters - Baptists, Methodists, Quakers and Unitarians - which displays Wilberforce’s open and friendly relations with these groups, his opposition to restrictions on them at home and his support for their missions abroad.
The first part is completed with a small section comprising the correspondence and papers of Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857), archdeacon of East Riding, and second son of William Wilberforce, including letters from Thomas Chalmers, Richard Froude, William Gladstone, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey and members of the Wilberforce family.
Of particular importance are the letters between Robert and Samuel concerning Robert’s involvement in the tractarian or high church movement and his decision to leave the Anglican Church.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 23191
Antonia Mary Roby Benson, daughter of Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood and Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe, on 11 December 1939.
     Sir Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
He was created Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull [U.K. Law Lord] on 1 August 1964.
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 Governor-General of India information - Search.com
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who is reputed to have said that "India should be governed from a palace, not from a country house," constructed a grand mansion, known as Government House, between 1799 and 1803.
The mansion remained in use until the capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi in 1912.
Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1869–1872)
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 Bodleian Library: Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Western manuscripts
Papers of Richard Wogan Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot of Malahide (Irish Peerage), James, 3rd Baron, James, 4th Baron and 1st Baron de Malahide (United Kingdom Peerage), and Richard Wogan, 5th Baron Talbot of Malahide, with family and estate papers, 13th-20th cent.
Diaries of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, 1845-69, and Bishop of Winchester, 1869-73.
Letters to John Richard Magrath (1839-1930), Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford, with four groups of letters (found with Magrath's papers) to Edith Simcox, George and William Simcox, Amy Lefroy and Eleanor Grove, 1861-1920.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm   (2587 words)

  
 Governor-General of India - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who is reputed to have said that "India should be governed from a palace, not from a country house," constructed a grand mansion, known as Government House, between 1799 and 1803.
The mansion remained in use until the capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi in 1912.
Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1869–1872)
en.freepedia.org /Viceroy_of_India.html   (2113 words)

  
 Richard Belzer: The Death of Conservatism, Part 2 - Politics on The Huffington Post
Don't forget Wilberforce, Whitfield, Wesley, and John Newton and the significant social changes that came during the 18th c.
Richard is not arguing that corporatism is conservatism.
And your link implies that Richard argues for doing away with corporations: "It seems that he wants a different America, but he can't have it.
www.huffingtonpost.com /richard-belzer/the-death-of-conservatism_b_64460.html   (5103 words)

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