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Born 7Sep1805 Samuel English Bishop known as "Soapy Sam" and one of the greatest public speakers of his day. His nickname derived from a comment by Benjamin Disraeli that his manner was "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous."

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2021-09-07

30 June 1860: Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, among others, debate the theory of evolution, seven months after the publication of On the Origin of Species.
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2021-06-30

William Wilberforce, abolitionist, died in 1833.

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2016-07-29