biography
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Wilberforce, Samuel
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| lived:
| (1805–73)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, born in London, UK, the third son of William Wilberforce. He studied at Oxford, and was ordained in 1828. He became Bishop of Oxford in 1845, instituted Cuddesdon Theological College in 1854, and was appointed Bishop of Winchester in 1869. He initiated the modernization of the language of the King James Bible, and wrote along with his brother, Robert, the life of his father (1838). |
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