Henry William Wilberforce
1807–73
Clergyman and journalist. Youngest son of William Wilberforce (1759–1833). BA , Oxford, 1830. Ordained deacon, 1834; perpetual curate of Bransgore, 1834; vicar of Walmer, near Deal, 1841; of East Farleigh, near Maidstone, 1843. Resigned his vicarage and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1850. Secretary of the Catholic Defence Association, 1852. Editor of the Catholic Standard (renamed Weekly Register in 1855), 1854–64.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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