civil servant

Samuel Wilberforce

British judge in India, 1874-1954

British judge in India, 1874-1954

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Family

Notable quotes

“Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?”
— To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
“A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.”
— Quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 74
“Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.”
— Of the Whig party.
“Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.”
— Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

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