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
    • 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
    • Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-grandson of Samuel, Law Lord
  • Henry Wilberforce (1807–1873), fourth and youngest son of William, Catholic convert, journalist and author
• Marion Wilberforce (1902–1995), aviator

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, Ontario, Canada; an 18th-century colony of American Black citizens
• Wilberforce River, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
• Wilberfoss, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Fictional characters

• Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, a character in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?
• 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
• Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot, a character in Blinky Bill the Movie and The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill.

Other uses

• Wilberforce (cat), who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987
• Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull, England
• Wilberforce School, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey
• Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio

See also

• Wilbur Force, a character in The Little Shop of Horrors
• Wilberforce pendulum