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Barbara Wilberforce. Portrait in about 1797 by John Russell. Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. [1] Early life. She was born in Birches Green, Erdington, Warwickshire, and died in The Vicarage, East Farleigh, Kent .
In April 1797 aged 37, William Wilberforce met Barbara Spooner, a young woman who shared his deeply held Christian beliefs. Eight days after meeting Barbara, William proposed and they were married a month later. The couple were devoted to each other and had six children.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) foi um filantropo e político abolicionista inglês. Dedicou sua existência a diversas causas libertárias, sendo a principal delas o abolicionismo, atuando enquanto representante político por cerca de 45 anos e influenciando diretamente na realização do Ato de Abolição da Escravatura, em 1833 na Inglaterra.
10 de ago. de 2020 · Barbara Wilberforce, Marianne Thornton, Sarah Stephen and Selena Macaulay all supported evangelical family values and their husbands' moral reform causes within the domestic realm. Henry Thornton, a cousin of William Wilberforce, owned extensive grounds on Clapham Common and built three neighbouring houses with a communal garden.
1 de mar. de 2012 · This chapter provides a brief summary of the lives of after the Clapham Sect after the death of Wilberforce. Barbara Wilberforce spent her widowhood travelling between the houses of her sons and her sister. Robert Wilberforce married Agnes Wrangham, who died in childbirth in 1834.
They were devoted to each other, and Barbara was very attentive and supportive to Wilberforce in his increasing ill health, though she showed little interest in his political activities. They had six children in fewer than ten years: William (born 1798), Barbara (born 1799), Elizabeth (born 1801), Robert (born 1802), Samuel (born 1805) and ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · William Wilberforce (born August 24, 1759, Hull, Yorkshire, England—died July 29, 1833, London) was a British politician and philanthropist who from 1787 was prominent in the struggle to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery itself in British overseas possessions.
