birth_date: 1759-08-24 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.27
name: William Wilberforce
about: William Wilberforce was an MP, a committed Christian and a vanguard in the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. He campaigned all his life, despite opposition and ill health and championed reform in many areas of society. He was founder of the Church Mission Society and what would later come to be known as the RSPCA.
death_date: 1833-07-29 00:00:00