Wilberforce

Wilberforce may refer to:

People

• William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade
  • Robert Wilberforce (1802–1857), second son of William, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer
    • Lionel Wilberforce (1861–1944), British physicist, grandson of Robert and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
    • Herbert Wilberforce (1864–1941), British male tennis player, grandson of Robert and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
  • Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873), third son of William, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley
    • • Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-grandson of Samuel, famous Law Lord
    • Ernest Wilberforce (1840–1907), Anglican bishop and third son of Samuel
    • Basil Wilberforce (1841–1916), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Westminster and fourth and youngest son of Samuel
  • Henry Wilberforce (1807–1873), fourth and youngest son of William, Catholic convert, journalist and author

Places

• Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia
• Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada
• Wilberforce Falls, Wilberforce Gorge, Wilberforce Hills: Nunavut, Canada
• Wilberforce, Ohio, United States
• Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
• Wilberforce Colony, 18th century colony of American Black citizens
• Wilberforce, Berlin, Germany; 19th Century
• Wilberforce River, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Fictional characters

• Wilberforce, the middle name of Bertie Wooster, a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse
• Mr. Wilberforce, a character in the children's novel, Under the Mountain, by Maurice Gee
• Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce, one of the main characters in the film The Ladykillers
• The Wilberforces, antagonists in the New Zealand children's TV horror-sci-fi show Under the Mountain
• Wilberforce Thornapple, a character in the comic strip The Born Loser
• Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, a character in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?

Other

• Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio
• Wilberforce School, a Classical Christian K-12 school in Princeton Junction, New Jersey
• Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull, England
• Wilberforce (cat), a cat who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987

See also

• Wilbur Force, sometimes misattributed as Wilberforce, is a character in The Little Shop of Horrors
• Wilberforce pendulum