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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton | |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
7 April 1786 | | Born (Castle Heddingham, Essex). |
1803 | | Trinity College, Dublin. |
13 May 1807 | | Married Hannah Gurney (sister of prison reformer Eizabeth Fry), mother of his eight children (5 of whom died young). |
1808 | | Joined Truman, Hanbury, & Co, brewers, of Spitalfields. |
1823 | | Founder member of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery (London Anti-Slavery Society). |
May 1824 | | Succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of anti-slavery party in parliament. |
1 ??????? 1837 | | M.P. for Weymouth. |
1839 | | Published 'The African Slave Trade and its Remedy'. |
1 June 1840 | | African Civilization Society inaugurated. |
30 June 1840 | | Baronet. |
1843 | | African Civilisation Society dissolved. |
19 February 1845 | | Died. |
Literature: (DNB; Stenton). |