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    Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. She was born in Birches Green,...
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    William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, a philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade...
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  • of Parliament and prominent abolitionist campaigner, and his wife Barbara Wilberforce. He was their eldest child. He was educated at a school in Cambridgeshire...
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    editor and journalist. Henry Wilberforce was born in 1807, the youngest son of William Wilberforce and his wife, Barbara Ann Spooner. He studied classics...
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  • include: William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade Barbara Wilberforce (1777–1847),...
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  • A few days afterward, William Wilberforce and Barbara marry. Several years pass with no further success. Wilberforce's wife and new children provide him...
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    William Wilberforce, a major campaigner against the slave trade and slavery, and Barbara Spooner; he was the younger brother of Robert Isaac Wilberforce. He...
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  • Clapham Sect more generally, including the Thornton family. She told Barbara Wilberforce (1799–1821), daughter of the house and a reluctant pianist, that...
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    Stephen's second wife was Sarah Wilberforce (c. 1757–1816), eldest sister of William Wilberforce (1759–1833); Barbara Wilberforce (1799–1821) was her niece...
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    to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was a nephew of William Wilberforce's wife, Barbara Wilberforce. He became a Christian socialist in 1850, and joined the...
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