Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce (born September 7, 1805 in Clapham , London , † July 19, 1873 in Abinger near Dorking ) was an Anglican bishop .

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Samuel Wilberforce was the third son of William Wilberforce and his wife Barbara (1777-1847). He studied from 1823 at Oriel College , Oxford . There Wilberforce received his Baccalaureus Artium in 1826 and a Magister Artium in 1829 . In 1828 he was ordained and married Emily, a daughter of Reverend John Sargent (1780–1855). From 1830 to 1840 he was principal at Brightstone on the Isle of Wight . In 1839 Wilberforce became Archdeacon of Surrey and in 1841 Chaplain to Prince Albert . From 1840 to 1843, he served as rector of Alverstoke ( Hampshire ).

In 1845 Wilberforce was Dean of Westminster and received his doctorate in Oxford as a Divinitatis Doctor (Doctor of Theology). In November 1845 he was appointed Bishop of Oxford . On December 18, 1845, the Royal Society accepted him as a member.

On June 30, 1860, at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the so-called " Huxley-Wilberforce Debate " about Charles Darwin's work The Origin of Species took place , at which Wilberforce later had a widely received argument with the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley delivered.

Wilberforce held the office of Bishop of Oxford until 1869. He then became Bishop of Winchester . Bishop Wilberforce died after being thrown from his horse at Dorking . He is buried in the church cemetery in Lavington .

Fonts (selection)

“Not a Brawler” caricature by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair magazine , July 24, 1869.

• A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship . Rivingtons, London 1832; digitized version
• The Note Book of a Contry Clergyman . London 1833; digitized version
• The Apostolical Ministry Its Difficulties, Strength, and Duties; a Sermon Preached in the Church of St. Thomas, Newport, Isle of Wight, Oct. 23, 1833 at the Visitation of Charles Richard, Lord Bishop of Winchester and Published at the Request of the Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Deanery . LB Seeley, Surrey 1833
• Journals and letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, BD, late fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and chaplain to the honorable East India Company . RB Seeley and W. Burnside, London 1837 - 2 volumes; Volume 1 , Volume 2
• The Life of William Wilberforce . Murray, London 1838, 5 volumes - with Robert Isaac Wilberforce; Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5
• Eucharistica: Meditations and Prayers with selected passages on the most Holy Eucharist from old English Divines . London 1839;
• Agathos, and other Sunday Stories . RB Seeley & W. Burnside, London 1840; 5th edition 1841
• The Correspondence of William Wilberforce . J. Murray, London 1840, 2 volumes - with Robert Isaac Wilberforce; Volume 1 , Volume 2
• A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry, Lord Brougham, on the Government-Plan of Education . J. Burns, London 1840
• The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes . J. Burns, London 1841
• A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America . J. Burns, London 1844; digitized version
• A Reproof of the American Church . W. Harned, New York 1846; digitized version
• The Shouts and Weeping of a Day of Jubilee: A Sermon Preached in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, June 15, 1852, being the Close of the Third Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts . George Bell, London 1852
• Heroes of Hebrew History . Strahan & Co, London 1870
• Essays contributed to the Quarterly Review . J. Murray, London 1874, 2 volumes

proof

• Eminent Persons: Biographies, Reprinted from The Times . MacMillan, London 1892–1897, 6 volumes

further reading

• John William Burgon : Lives of twelve good men . Murray, London 1891, pp. 242-278 ( online ).
• Stephen Jay Gould : Soapy Sam's Logic. A True Scoundrel but with Redeeming Value . In: Natural History . Volume 95, Number 4, 1986, pp. 16-18.
• JR Lucas: Wilberforce and Huxley: A legendary encounter . In: Historical Journal . Volume 22, Cambridge University Press 1979, pp. 313-330 (on- line ).
• Standish Meacham: Lord Bishop: The Life of Samuel Wilberforce, 1805–1873 . Harvard University Press, 1970, ISBN 0-674-53913-3
• RK Pugh, JFA Mason (eds.): The letter books of Samuel Wilberforce, 1843-68 . Oxford 1970, ISBN 0-902509-00-4
• Martin Schneider:  Wilberforce, Samuel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 1578-1581.

Web links

Commons : Samuel Wilberforce  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry to Wilberforce; Samuel (1805-1873) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
• Entry in the Canterbury project
• Illustrations by Wilberforce

predecessor	Office	successor
Richard Bagot	Bishop of Oxford 1845–1869	John Fielder Mackarness
Charles Richard Sumner	Bishop of Winchester 1869–1873	Edward Harold Browne