Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.

  • Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
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Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The son of one of the campaigners for the abolition of slavery William Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce was appointed bishop of Oxford in 1845, and became a national figure, known both through his writings, his correspondence (his son estimated that he completed an average of 6,430 letters a year) and his appearances in pulpits as a guest preacher outside his own diocese. He was a favourite preacher of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He took a line on many social issues, championing the rights of factory-workers, arguing against blood sports, and supporting improved sanitation. Outside the church, he was a keen natural historian, and was a vice-president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. With the assistance of the anatomist Richard Owen he reviewed Charles Darwin's book "On the origin of species" in 1860: Darwin described the review as "uncommonly clever", though Wilberforce did not accept the argument and was one of the first of many to make fun of the idea of mankind evolving from apes. He was appointed bishop of Winchester in 1869, in which role he was photographed by Cameron. After a number of heart attacks he died in 1873, having left his mark on many aspects of Victorian England

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[12 August 1871]

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1 photograph : albumen print

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V. Lloyd, Photography: the first eighty years, London, 1976, number 172 [p.106]
Julian Cox et al., Julia Margaret Cameron: the complete photographs, London 2003, no. 830, p. 363 (The Lord Bishop of Winchester)

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