Hull's Famous sons and Daughters : William Wilberforce

Possible Hull's most famous past resident and rightfully so fondly remember by the people of Hull and all over 

( Lynne and Paul just came back from The Gambia where he was well known ) 

(Now the hands on History museum in Hull) It was the School where he went not for his entire childhood age 7 to 9 

Wilberforce aged 9 

(Hull poet Andrew marvell also went there ) +Hull Museums  (At the time Hull grammar School )

Pocklington School Where he went from 12 after been returned from London as his Grandparents were opposed to his Evangelist leanings and Hull Grammar school's headmaster was also an Evangelist 

 The house he lived in from Birth until his farther died and he was sent to live with his Uncle in London Aged 9 

24 August 1759 his date of Birth He was Christened in September at the Holy Trinity Church Hull which is close to where he went to school  

Holy Trinity 

 Wilberforce house is in the heart of Hull's old town near the River Hull the Wilberforce family were merchants and that was the area that the majority of Hull's merchants lived however the Wilberforce family did not build this house but brought it which was unusual as most Hull merchants built their own homes at the time like the grand Maistor house  ( the River Hull was Hull's original docks )  (Wilberforce House in Hull was opened as Britain's first slavery museum)  His Grandfather also called William Brought it from the Thornton Family in 1732 

The same merchant family he had worked for when he moved to Hull 

His Work 

''William was only 5’4” tall. Once, when he spoke in York Castle Yard, he was described as a shrimp as he stood up on a table to address a huge angry audience, but as he spoke, he quietened them and made them listen. It was said ‘he grew and grew until the shrimp became a whale!’'' Copied via +Hull Museums  

It took him 10 attempts to get his bill to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in Britain until it was passed in 1807 114 for and 15 against and this was not the end of the slave trade or his campaigning

"When I consider the magnitude of the subject which I am to bring before the House, a subject, in which the interests, not of this country, nor of Europe alone, but of the whole world, and of posterity, are involved: and when I think, at the same time, on the weakness of the advocate who has undertaken this great cause... it is impossible for me not to feel both terrified and concerned at my own inadequacy to such a task."

"The Transatlantic slave trade, I tell you, is an evil trade. I will not rest until I have effected its abolition."