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	Samuel Wilberforce - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SAMUEL WILBERFORCE (1805-1873), English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce, was born at Clapham Common, London, on the 7th of September 1805.
		The eldest, Reginald Garton Wilberforce, being the author of An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian Mutiny (1894).
		Ernest Roland Wilberforce (1840-1908)was bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne from 1882 to 1895, and bishop of Chichester from 1895 till his death.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Samuel_Wilberforce (893 words)

	William Wilberforce - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (1759-1833), English philanthropist whose name is chiefly associated with the abolition of the slave trade, was descended from a Yorkshire family which possessed the manor of Wilberfoss in the East Riding from the time of Henry II.
		He was the only son of Robert Wilberforce, member of a commercial house at Hull, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bird of Barton, Oxon, and was born at Hull on the 24th of August 1759.
		The youngest, Henry William Wilberforce (1807-1873), was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford Union.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Wilberforce (1095 words)

	William Wilberforce
		Wilberforce, along with Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, was now seen as one of the leaders of the anti-slave trade movement.
		Most of Wilberforce's Tory colleagues in the House of Commons were opposed to any restrictions on the slave trade and at first he had to rely on the support of Whigs such as Charles Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Grenville and Henry Brougham.
		Wilberforce refused to be beaten and in 1805 the House of Commons passed a bill to that made it unlawful for any British subject to transport slaves, but the measure was blocked by the House of Lords.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REwilberforce.htm (926 words)

	Samuel Wilberforce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 - July 19, 1873), English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce, was born at Clapham Common, London.
		On the publication of JW Colenso's Commentary on the Romans in 1861, Wilberforce endeavoured to induce the author to hold a private conference with him; but after the publication of the first two parts of the Pentateuch Critically Examined he drew up the address of the bishops which called on Colenso to resign his bishopric.
		Ernest Roland Wilberforce (1840-1908) was bishop of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1882 to 1895, and bishop of Chichester from 1895 till his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce (978 words)

	SAMUEL WILBERFORCE LETTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Samuel Wilberforce was born at Clapham Common near London, England, on September 7, 1805.
		As a leader of the Church of England, Wilberforce was involved in the major religious controversies of the era, including: the Renn Dickson Hampden Case (1848) and the George Cornelius Gorham Case (1851).
		Samuel Wilberforce was killed by a fall from his horse on July 19, 1873.
	www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/mss099.html (594 words)

	William Wilberforce: biography and bibliography
		This speech, the most important of Wilberforce's life to that point, was praised in the newspapers as being one of the most eloquent ever to have been heard in the house.
		Wilberforce left town, holidaying at Buxton with Hannah More, confident that the next session would see a resolution of the debate and abolition of the trade.
		Wilberforce was overcome by the power of Romilly's concluding passages, and sat with his head on his hands, tears streaming down his face.
	www.brycchancarey.com /abolition/wilberforce.htm (2451 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wilberforce,
		Wilberforce, Samuel WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL [Wilberforce, Samuel], 1805-73, English prelate; son of William Wilberforce.
		Wilberforce University WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY [Wilberforce University] at Wilberforce, Ohio, near Xenia; African Methodist Episcopal; coeducational; chartered and opened 1856.
		Resurrecting a great reformer: statesman William Wilberforce, who led efforts to halt the slave trade in the British Empire, now stands as the perfect example of what faith-based politics can achieve.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wilberforce, (646 words)

	William Wilberforce
		English philanthropist whose name is chiefly associated with the abolition of the slave trade, was descended from a Yorkshire family which possessed the manor of Wilberfoss in the East Riding from the time of King Henry II until the middle of the 18th century.
		In 1784 Wilberforce was elected for both Hull and Yorkshire, and took his seat for the latter constituency.
		When the anti-slavery society was formed in 1823, Wilberforce and Clarkson became vice-presidents; but before their aim was accomplished Wilberforce had retired from public life, and the Emancipation Bill was not passed until August 1833, a month after his death.
	www.nndb.com /people/824/000049677 (983 words)

	Wilberforce and Huxley: A Legendary Encounter
		Wilberforce himself still thought well enough of the written version of his views to reprint it in his Essays contributed to the Quarterly Review in 1874; and when, in 1881, his son was writing his biography, it was an incident he could recall with credit.
		Once we have established the fixity of species, as Wilberforce thought he had, then the principle that the progeny are of the same species as the parents becomes a strict logical equivalence relation, and any putative chain of descent from one species to another must have a broken link somewhere.
		Wilberforce, in particular, was unpopular in the university, and many dons were predisposed to think ill of him, and cast his assailant in a heroic mould.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~jrlucas/legend.html (7606 words)

	Samuel Wilberforce - Natural History Museum
		Samuel Wilberforce was a highly successful Victorian clergyman and one of the greatest public speakers of his day.
		Born in London in 1805, Samuel Wilberforce was the third son of William Wilberforce, the famous politician and anti-slavery campaigner.
		Wilberforce graduated in 1826 and two years later was ordained as an Anglican priest.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/evol-samuel-wilberforce/samuel-wilberforce.html (816 words)

	Octavia Wilberforce
		Octavia was the granddaughter of Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), Bisho
		Reginald Wilberforce had arranged for Octavia to marry Charles Buxton, the eldest son of Lord Buxton, a wealthy businessman and prominent politician.
		In the middle classes the main object was for parents to bring up their daughters to be sufficiently attractive to gain a suitable husband, to produce large families and be accomplished in the art of managing servants and the entertainment of guests.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wwilberforce.htm (2209 words)

	Amazing Grace ~ Thread 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Morse's son Samuel F.B. Morse was often a guest of Wilberforce's in London during his art studies in the early 1810s.
		- American foreign missions advocate Samuel Mills of Connecticut met with Wilberforce in 1818 in London prior to founding the nation of Liberia; Wilberforce played a role in the founding of Sierra Leone as a freed-slave colony, and the nation is just north of Liberia and was the model for Liberia.
		I'm sure American abolitionists were inspired by Wilberforce, and there may be ties in the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe and other Americans who wrote about slavery prior to the Civil War.
	www.walden.com /web/teach/grace/thread1 (328 words)

	CiS-St Edmunds Lecture series - WILBERFORCE-HUXLEY DEBATE - John Brooke
		He also knew that Wilberforce "had the reputation of being a first-class controversialist." Consequently, "I was quite aware", he later told Francis Darwin, "that if he played his cards properly, we should have little chance, with such an audience, of making an efficient defence".
		Wilberforce was confident that the best science and the best philosophy were on his side.
		No-one, Darwin had written, would suppose that the stripes on the whelp of a lion or the spots on the young flbird "are of any use to these animals, or are related to the conditions to which they are exposed." Their prevalence and their very lack of utility were an indication of common descent.
	www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk /cis/brooke/lecture3.html (1317 words)

	Underground Railroad and Wilberforce School
		In the beginning, the Wilberforce school had large population of students, but after a number of setbacks, such as a fire, relocation, and replacement of professional staff, the school was marked by low attendance of fl students.
		The Wilberforce graduates were first denied entrance, but, public pressure, the school board reversed its decision.
		Wilberforce school closed it doors in 1873 after the enactment of an 1873 legislation that established public schools to all children before the age 18 and fl students could not be prohibited from entrance into public school.
	www.albany.edu /~sg0068/isp523/isp02/wilberforce.htm (533 words)

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		Lucas then makes it clear that Wilberforce was accused of not being a scientist who presumed himself to speak of scientific matters.
		Lucas then states to evaluate Wilberforce's argument that evolution is scientifically false, we must distinguish between the Darwinism of the day and the Darwinism of today.
		Wilberforce has had charges levied against him, including that the Bishop knew little of science and that he appealed to figures of authority too much.
	www.history.vt.edu /Barrow/Hist3706/darwinresponses.html (3351 words)

	Robert Isaac Wilberforce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was the second son of William Wilberforce, and a younger brother of Samuel Wilberforce, Anglican Bishop of Oxford.
		Educated privately, he entered Oriel College, Oxford, in 1820, and after graduating with a double first, he was elected a fellow of Oriel in 1826, thus becoming a colleague of Newman, Pusey, Keble, and Hurrell Froude.
		Besides the "Life of William Wilberforce", which he wrote with his brother Samuel (5 vols., London, 1838), he published several historical and theological works.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/wilberforce,robert_isaac.html (349 words)

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		During the course of Wilberforce's speech he asked a rhetorical question about the implications of Darwin's theory for Huxley's simian ancestry and Huxley responded with references to Wilberforce's alleged misuse of oratorical skills and with comments on some of the scientific issues Wilberforce had raised.
		The view that the outcome of the encounter was decided on the basis of the repartee depends on a prior conclusion about the relative value of arguments presented by both sides at the meeting.
		Wilberforce, S. Review: On The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races on the Struggle for Life.
	www1.umn.edu /ships/updates/wilbrfrz.htm (2608 words)

	Thomas Huxley
		His opponent, Archbishop Samuel Wilberforce, was not-so-affectionately known as "Soapy Sam" for his renowned slipperiness in debate.
		Wilberforce was coached against Huxley by Richard Owen.
		During the debate, Archbishop Wilberforce ridiculed evolution and asked Huxley whether he was descended from an ape on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/thuxley.html (1283 words)

	No. 1371: Soapy Sam and Huxley
		Wilberforce's father had been the driving force behind England's giving up slavery in 1833.
		Samuel Wilberforce had been an athlete, mathematician, and debater at Oxford.
		New Wilberforces call up new Huxleys to go at it with little more sense of open inquiry than there was at Oxford, 140 years ago.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1371.htm (519 words)

	Bank to Westminster: Lionel de Rothschild's journey to parliament, 1847-1858
		Wilberforce, the son of William Wilberforce the anti-slavery campaigner, was made Bishop of Oxford in 1845 before becoming Bishop of Winchester in 1869.
		He was an active speaker in the House of Lords, particularly on matters affecting the Church of England.
		Wilberforce is mentioned in Louise de Rothschild's diary.
	www.rothschildarchive.org /ib/?doc=/ib/articles/BW3bWilberforce (131 words)

	Wilberforce, Samuel - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL [Wilberforce, Samuel], 1805-73, English prelate; son of William Wilberforce.
		He did not support the Oxford movement ; instead, he attempted to hold a middle course between the High Church and Low Church factions.
		Wilberforce Choir to perform at Seventh-day Adventist Church
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wilberfs.html (293 words)

	Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - William Wilberforce
		William Wilberforce was born in Hull on 24 August 1759, the only son of Robert and Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Bird).
		Their sons were William, Robert, Samuel (who was briefly Dean of Westminster in 1845) and Henry but his two daughters pre-deceased him.
		Portraits of William and Samuel are at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /library/burial/wilberforce.htm (303 words)

	William Wilberforce - founder of St Paul's Church Mill Hill, leader of Anti-Slavery Movement.
		The choice of Highwood, apart from its rurality which appealed to Wilberforce's love of nature and of walking, may have been influenced by the knowledge that the then vicar was intending to build a chapel at Mill Hill.
		When after three years it was not forthcoming, Wilberforce determined to build one for his and his neighbours' benefit at his own expense.
		During the building period, Wilberforce's financial circumstances changed dramatically when he undertook responsibility for heavy losses incurred by his son.
	www.stpaulschurchmillhill.co.uk /wilberforce.html (511 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Christianity and Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One prominent early critic of Darwin was the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873).
		Wilberforce was such a skilful debater that he was nicknamed "Soapy Sam." [1] The Oxford bishop used his debating and rhetorical skills to the hilt in attacking Darwin and his ideas.
		Towards the end of his oration, he turned to Huxley who was sitting beside him, and with the triumphal air of a man about to deliver the final blow to his opponent, asked the young scientist whether he traced his ancestry from the apes through his grandfather's of grandmother's side.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/darwin.html (724 words)

	William Wilberforce — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Resurrecting a great reformer: statesman William Wilberforce, who led efforts to halt the slave trade in the British Empire, now stands......
		An HBCU transformed: Wilberforce, the nation's oldest private Black college, emerges from one of its darkest periods just in time......
		Reconsidering the "forced" exodus of 1829: free fl emigration from Cincinnati, Ohio to Wilberforce, Canada.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852235.html (447 words)

	Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography
		WILBERFORCE, William - The Speech of William Wilberforce, Esq, Representative of the County of York, on Monday, April 18th 1791, on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
		WILBERFORCE, William - The Speech of William Wilberforce, Esq, Representative of the County of York, on Wednesday May 13th 1789 on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade: To which Are Added, the Resolutions then Moved, and a Short Sketch of the Speeches of the other Members.
		WILBERFORCE, William - [British philanthropist and abolitionist (1759-1833); member of the African Institution and of the Anti-Slavery Society, parliamentary leader from 1787 of the cause of abolition of slavery.
	www.books.ai /8th/Wil.htm (4287 words)

	Could monkeys type the 23rd Psalm?
		Wilberforce began the debate and, after making several scientific points, concluded with Paley’s argument that a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker, and similarly design in nature implies the existence of a Designer.
		It makes a good story, but Wilberforce had used the first person plural in his review, and the use of the first person is borne out by Wilberforce’s biography and one—admittedly late—account.
		What Wilberforce may have asked Huxley in the second person is where he drew the line between human descendants and ape-like ancestors, if, as was generally admitted, the offspring was of the same species as the parents.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v13/i1/monkeys.asp (3717 words)

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