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William Wilberforce

1759 - 1833

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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire (1784–1812). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Wilberforce has received more than 4,857,063 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). William Wilberforce is the 2,333rd most popular politician (up from 2,668th in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 612th in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Politician.

William Wilberforce was a British politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, which he accomplished in 1807.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Wilberforce ranks 2,333 out of 19,576. Before him are Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Rajendra Prasad, Cevdet Sunay, Peter, King of Hungary, Zvi Zamir, and Psusennes I. After him are Jehoash of Israel, Herod Agrippa II, Pepin of Italy, Gaston Doumergue, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, and Ælla of Northumbria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, William Wilberforce ranks 9. Before him are Joseph Fouché, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Feodorovna, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, and William Pitt the Younger. After him are Clotilde of France, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Friedrich August Wolf, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Among people deceased in 1833, William Wilberforce ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand VII of Spain, Kaspar Hauser, Richard Trevithick, Marie-Antoine Carême, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and Seraphim of Sarov. After him are Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and Pierre André Latreille.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Wilberforce ranks 512 out of 8,785. Before him are Jim Clark (1936), Henry the Young King (1155), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Gary Moore (1952), Douglas Adams (1952), and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861). After him are Jacqueline du Pré (1945), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ælla of Northumbria (800), Archer Martin (1910), Peter Gabriel (1950), and Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, William Wilberforce ranks 90. Before him are Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), James Callaghan (1912), James I of Scotland (1394), James IV of Scotland (1473), Gordon Brown (1951), and Henry the Young King (1155). After him are Ælla of Northumbria (800), Stanley Baldwin (1867), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), David II of Scotland (1324), and Eadwig (940).

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