"Wilberforce (cat) Wilberforce was a cat who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1986 and served under four British Prime Ministers: Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. His chief function was to catch mice, in which role he was the successor to Peta. In life he had been referred to as ""the best mouser in Britain"", as befitted his role. Wilberforce was still a kitten when he was adopted from the Hounslow branch of the RSPCA in 1973. This was while Edward Heath was Prime Minister. He was appointed the Office Manager's cat, with a"
"Humphrey (cat) Humphrey ( – March 2006) was a cat employed as the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from October 1989 to 13 November 1997. Arriving as a one year old stray, he served under the premierships of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair, retiring six months after the Blairs moved into Downing Street. He was the successor to Wilberforce. He was frequently referred to in jest by the press as an actual employee at Number 10. Humphrey was found as a stray"
"Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (11 March 1907 – 15 February 2003), was a British judge. Born in Jullundur, India, Wilberforce was the son of Samuel Wilberforce, ICS, later a judge of the Lahore High Court, and of Katherine Wilberforce, the daughter of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. His great-grandfather was Samuel Wilberforce, sometime Bishop of Oxford and his great-great-grandfather was the famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, a family connexion which had much influence on Wilberforce. Wilberforce attended Norwich School, Sandroyd School, and Winchester College, where Monty Rendall, the headmaster, convinced him to drop Mathematics, in which"
"Herbert Wilberforce Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player. He was vice-president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club from 1911 to 1921 and served as its president from 1921 to 1936. In 1887 he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon. In 1888 they were unable to defend their title when they were beaten in the Challenge Round by Ernest and William Renshaw. His best singles performance at Wimbledon came in 1886 when he reached the semifinal of the"
"Wilberforce House Wilberforce House is the birthplace of William Wilberforce (1759–1833), the British politician, abolitionist and social reformer, located in the High Street, Kingston upon Hull, England. Like the nearby Blaydes House and Maister House, the building was formerly a Merchant's house with access to quayside on the River Hull. It is now part of Hull's Museums Quarter incorporating the Nelson Mandela garden. William Wilberforce was MP for Kingston upon Hull and was most influential in the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and its colonies, which became his life's work. The house is now a museum showcasing the life"
"Henry Wilberforce Henry William Wilberforce (22 September 1807 – 23 April 1873), was a Church of England clergyman, a Tractarian, a convert to the Roman Catholic Church, and thereafter a newspaper proprietor, editor and journalist Henry Wilberforce was born in 1807, the youngest son of William Wilberforce and his wife, Barbara Ann Spooner. He studied classics and mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union. He graduated BA in 1830, MA in 1833, in the meantime enrolling as a student at Lincoln's Inn. During his time in Oxford he had received tuition from John"
"William Wilberforce William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming a Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). He was independent of party. In 1785, he became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for social reform and progress. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists,"
"cautious. He served as a Law Lord for 18 years, and heard 465 appeals. Wilberforce was Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1978 and 1994. Wilberforce gave many important and prescient judgments, including in the following cases: Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (11 March 1907 – 15 February 2003), was a British judge. Born in Jullundur, India, Wilberforce was the son of Samuel Wilberforce, ICS, later a judge of the Lahore High Court, and of Katherine Wilberforce, the daughter of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. His great-grandfather was Samuel Wilberforce, sometime Bishop of Oxford and"
"appointed a stipendiary magistrate in Bradford, Yorkshire. In 1914 he was appointed to the Metropolitan Bench of Magistrates and in 1926 became Deputy Chairman of the County of London Quarter Sessions. He retired in 1938. A member of the Liberal Party, Wilberforce unsuccessfully contested Hackney North at the 1900 General Election. In 1901 he was elected to the London County Council as a Progressive Party councillor representing St Pancras North. He served a single three-year term on the county council. Herbert Wilberforce Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London)"
"The Wilberforce Society The Wilberforce Society (TWS) is an independent, non-partisan, student think tank, named after MP, Cambridge alumnus and abolitionist William Wilberforce, based at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 2009 and is a registered charity. TWS aims to ""promote constructive and intelligent debate"" around the University of Cambridge, and ""represents the views of moderate students,"" offering undergraduates and graduates ""the opportunity to become involved with policy conception and analysis with the possibility of genuine impact."" TWS follows an independent, diverse and non-partisan policy agenda set by the executive committee, but also carries out commissions for external"
"to Rolls-Royce, and was a director of National Westminster Bank and Mercantile and General Reinsurance. He was Chairman of the British-Italian Society from 1983 to 1990, and Chairman of the British School at Rome from 1987 to 1994. He was a member of the council of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for 8 years. He was also a Governor of Sherborne School from 1973 to 1987. He published his memoirs, ""Colleagues and Friends"", in 1988. He was a member of the Beefsteak Club and Brooks's, and enjoyed playing tennis. He retired to the West Country, where he enjoyed painting watercolours. He"
"Robert Wilberforce Robert Isaac Wilberforce (19 December 18023 February 1857) was an English clergyman and writer. He was second son of abolitionist William Wilberforce, and active in the Oxford Movement. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, taking a double first in 1823. In 1826, he was chosen fellow of Oriel and was ordained, among his friends and colleagues being Newman, Pusey and Keble. For a few years he was one of the tutors at Oriel. The provost Edward Hawkins disliked his religious views, and in 1831 Wilberforce resigned and left Oxford. In 1832 he obtained the living of East"
"member, William Wilberforce, was responsible for the passage of the Slavery Abolition Bill in 1833. In 1849 he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. As a family of educators, lawyers and writers the Stephens represented the elite intellectual aristocracy. While his family were distinguished and intellectual, they were less colourful and aristocratic than Julia Jackson's. A graduate and fellow of Cambridge University he renounced his faith and position to move to London where he became a notable man of letters. In addition he was a rambler and mountaineer, described as a ""gaunt figure with the ragged"
"was also a member of the Defence Select Committee, a role that was controversial as he was a paid adviser to British Aerospace. He was also involved in the parliamentary-industry discussion group, Pitcom, becoming its chairman in 1987. He was closely involved with the Inter-Parliamentary Union, being a vice-chairman from 1985 to 1987, chairman from 1987 to 1990, presiding over its Centenary Conference in 1989, was its world president from 1991 to 1994, and was then appointed honorary life president. He was knighted and appointed a deputy lieutenant of West Sussex in 1990. He retired at the 1997 general election,"
"Times"". Harry Carpenter, Bishop of Oxford, assisted at his funeral. Lawrence Dale is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery near his home in Oxford. Dale's elder son Thomas Simon Savage Dale (known as Simon Dale) was born in 1919 and also became an architect. They practised together as Dale and Son. In 1957 Simon Dale married Susan Wilberforce, a descendant of William Wilberforce, and moved with her to Hopton Castle, Shropshire. Simon Dale later lost his sight, was divorced in 1972, and in 1987 was beaten to death at The Heath, the house that he and Susan had restored at Hopton Castle."
"support as they faced opposition from landowners and Anglican clergy. From the late 1780s onward, Wilberforce campaigned for limited parliamentary reform, such as the abolition of rotten boroughs and the redistribution of Commons seats to growing towns and cities, though by 1832, he feared that such measures went too far. With others, Wilberforce founded the world's first animal welfare organisation, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). In 1824, Wilberforce was one of over 30 eminent gentlemen who put their names at the inaugural public meeting to"
"Wilberforce School Wilberforce School is a private, classical Christian school in Princeton Junction, New Jersey serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Founded in 2005, the school is named in honor of noted abolitionist William Wilberforce. The Head of School is Howe Whitman and the Academic Dean is Karen Ristuccia. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 2015; the school's accreditation expires in May 2022. The school opened in the fall of 2005 following two years of discussion between David and Awilda Rowe and Howe and"
"although he found the excesses of some of his fellow students distasteful. Witty, generous and an excellent conversationalist, Wilberforce was a popular figure. He made many friends including the more studious future Prime Minister William Pitt . Despite his lifestyle and lack of interest in studying, he managed to pass his examinations and was awarded a B.A. in 1781 and an M.A. in 1788. Wilberforce began to consider a political career while still at university, and during the winter of 1779–1780, he and Pitt frequently watched House of Commons debates from the gallery. Pitt, already set on a political career,"
"in 1994 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. Adjoining the site is Oriel Chambers, the home of the University of Hull's Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation which conducts research into historic and contemporary forms of slavery. The two Georgian Houses adjacent to Wilberforce House formerly housed an annexe containing a display of historic costume and period rooms before closing for refurbishment. Wilberforce House Wilberforce House is the birthplace of William Wilberforce (1759–1833), the British politician, abolitionist and social reformer, located in the High Street, Kingston upon Hull,"
"Central as the Conservative candidate, but lost. Wilberforce was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the Chancery Division in 1961, receiving the customary knighthood. In 1964, he was elevated to the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and was made a life peer as Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. He is the only England and Wales judge in recent times to have been appointed to the House of Lords straight from the High Court Bench, without serving in the Court of Appeal. His decisions were known for being reserved and"
"resigned from the Canterbury Association on 14 March 1849. The Wilberforce River in New Zealand was named for them. Wilberforce left three sons. The eldest, Reginald, was the author of ""An Unrecorded Chapter of the Indian Mutiny"" (1894), criticised by his fellow officers of the 52nd Foot for its inaccuracy. Reginald was grandfather (through his fourth son, judge Samuel) to Richard Lord Wilberforce, a Lord of Appeal. His two younger sons both attained distinction in the English church. Ernest (1840–1908) was Bishop of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1882 to 1895, and Bishop of Chichester from 1895 till his death. Basil (1841–1916) was"
"Brendan Simms. In June 2010, Lord Wilson of Dinton, former Head of the Home Civil Service, became Chair of the Board of Patrons of the Wilberforce Society. The Board also includes Baroness Prashar, Lord Kilclooney, Lord Rees of Ludlow, Lord Deben and Professor Andrew Gamble. In July 2013 the Wilberforce Society was nominated in the ""One to Watch"" category at the Prospect Magazine annual think tank awards. The Wilberforce Society The Wilberforce Society (TWS) is an independent, non-partisan, student think tank, named after MP, Cambridge alumnus and abolitionist William Wilberforce, based at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in"
"father refusing her financial support, and disinheriting her, Wilberforce relied mainly on Robins and Lord Buxton. On qualifying, she worked as house physician to Wilfred Harris at St Mary's Hospital, London. From 1923 Wilberforce was in general practice in Brighton, retiring in 1954. Robins met Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1928, at the award ceremony for the Femina - Vie Heureuse Prize; she had known Leslie Stephen, Virginia's father. The Woolfs came to know Wilberforce, who lived with Robins in Brighton, on a social basis at this point. A social call for tea by Wilberforce to the Woolfs at Monk's"
"to Berlin: they married in 1947. Wilberforce returned to the bar in 1947, upon the abolition of the Control Office for Germany and Austria. His old set of chambers had disappeared, forcing him to find new accommodation. He participated in several Foreign Office cases, including Corfu Channel case and the Nowegian Fisheries case. He was also appointed as the British legal member of the International Civil Aviation Organization. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1954. He was appointed a CMG for services in relation to the Warsaw Convention in 1956. In the 1950 election, he stood for Kingston upon Hull"
"living allowance for his care. The black-and-white cat turned out to be a very good mouser. The policeman on security duty at the front door of Number 10 had instructions to ring the bell for Wilberforce whenever he wanted to come indoors. According to Bernard Ingham, the former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, Wilberforce was a normal cat for whom Thatcher once bought ""a tin of sardines in a Moscow supermarket"". Ingham was allergic to cats and did his best to avoid Wilberforce. ""Bloody Wilberforce used to sit under my desk and I would have a fit of sneezing. I"
"Lionel Wilberforce Lionel Robert Wilberforce (18 April 1861 – 1 April 1944) was a British physicist. He is best known for the invention of the Wilberforce pendulum, which exhibits a curious motion in which periods of purely rotational oscillation gradually alternate with periods of purely up and down oscillation. Lionel Robert Wilberforce was born in Munich Bavaria to his mother Fanny Flash and his father who was Edward Wilberforce (1834–1914). Edward was a grandson of William Wilberforce through Robert Wilberforce. He was educated in England and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1884. He worked with J. J. Thomson at"
"came out of retirement to write a book refuting their version of events, and the sons eventually made a half-hearted private apology to him and removed the offending passages in a revision of their biography. However, for more than a century, Wilberforce's role in the campaign dominated the history books. Later historians have noted the warm and highly productive relationship between Clarkson and Wilberforce, and have termed it one of history's great partnerships: without both the parliamentary leadership supplied by Wilberforce and the research and public mobilisation organised by Clarkson, abolition could not have been achieved. As his sons had"
"A true ""wet"", he served until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes at the February 1974 general election. Declining the opportunity to stand in the new safe seat of Royal Tunbridge Wells, he returned full-time to J. Walter Thompson, becoming a director. He joined the London board of the Halifax Building Society in 1974, and joined its main board of directors in 1976. He was its vice-chairman from 1981 to 1983, and its chairman from 1983 until he retired in 1990, during a period which saw rapid expansion, the ending of interest rates being set by the Building Societies"
"second elections in 1985. He also oversaw the establishment of the Provisional Regional Council. He also witnessed the Sino-British negotiations on the Hong Kong sovereignty after 1997, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visit to Beijing in September 1983 and the finalisation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in December 1984. As Chief Secretary, he also acted as Governor of Hong Kong on several occasions. He retired from public service in 1985. After leaving Hong Kong, he spent his retirement quietly in England. He died of heart attack while in a taxi near his retirement home in Oxford, England on 27 September 1999."
"following a chance meeting. He worked for the BBC for nearly 40 years until retiring in 1986. He presented many BBC programmes not connected with sport, including the original version of ""Come Dancing"" (1957–72), ""What's My Line?"", and ""Get Ahead"" (1958–62), about business entrepreneurs. He was a cricket and rugby correspondent for both ""The Times"" and ""The Daily Telegraph"". During interviews with sportsmen, West was in the habit of using words that were unfamiliar to his interlocutors. On one occasion, speaking to Viv Richards, he said ""Viv, your genius transcends parochialism."" In 1984, after Jimmy White had won the Masters,"
"Colony was founded by black reformers, and inhabited by free slaves from the United States. The Wilberforce Society is a student think tank at the University of Cambridge. The town of Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia is named after him. ""Amazing Grace"", a film about Wilberforce and the struggle against the slave trade, directed by Michael Apted and starring Ioan Gruffudd and Benedict Cumberbatch was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Parliament's anti-slave trade legislation. William Wilberforce William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to"
"Secretary, announced that Hull had won the award to become the UK City of Culture 2017. The Museums Quarter is a development on the High Street in the heart of the Old Town. It combines four museums around a leisure garden. The work cost £5.1 million and was carried out from 1998 to 2003, being formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester. The Museums are Wilberforce House, the birthplace of William Wilberforce (1759–1833), the British politician, abolitionist and social reformer; the Arctic Corsair, a deep-sea trawler that was converted to a museum ship in 1999, on the adjacent River Hull;"
"for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His underlying conservatism led him to support politically and socially controversial legislation, and resulted in criticism that he was ignoring injustices at home while campaigning for the enslaved abroad. In later years, Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery, and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured."