Barbara Wilberforce
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Barbara Ann Wilberforce was the wife of abolitionist and politician William Wilberforce.
Portrait in about 1797 by John Russell
William Wilberforce was a British lawyer, the eldest son of William Wilberforce. He was briefly a Member of Parliament in 1837–38.
Barbara Wilberforce
…of typhoid in 1800, after which her health was never strong. Nevertheless, she bore six children, all of whom survived to adulthood. The children were William (July 1798), Barbara (1799), Elizabeth (1801), Robert (1802), Samuel (1805), and Henry (1807). Following her husband's death in 1833, Barbara Wilberforce…
Mrs William Wilberforce and Child by John Linnell, 1824