Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, devout Christian, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition...

testament of Granville Sharp, the husband of Matilda Lincolne Sharp. Granville Sharp was a successful banker descended from the well-known Sharp family of...

Granville Sharp Pattison (1791–1851) was a Scottish anatomist. Professor of Anatomy at London University, after losing two British positions, he emigrated...

news of the massacre to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp, who worked unsuccessfully to have the ship's crew prosecuted for murder...

house of William Sharp, a surgeon who treated poor Londoners at his house free of charge. There, he was seen by William's brother Granville. William said...

Clarkson and a group of activists against the slave trade, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take...

Gilbert Granville Sharp (19 February 1894 – 1 November 1968), was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister. He was the born in Mafeking, South...

Granville Maynard Sharp (5 January 1906 – 8 August 1997) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Sharp was educated at Cleckheaton Grammar...

wives also were part of the settlement. Granville Town (named for its benefactor and patron Granville Sharp) was established as the first town of the...

by twelve men; including prominent campaigners Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, who, as Anglicans, were able to be more influential in Parliament...

Say's law on the behaviour of markets Granville Sharp (1735–1813), abolitionist and brother of William William Sharp (1729–1810), surgeon Thomas Sherlock...

company came about because of the work of the ardent abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Thomas's brother John Clarkson...

William Sharp (1729 – 17 March 1810) was an English physician reported to have acted as surgeon to King George III. With his brother Granville Sharp, he was...

Equiano informed abolitionists such as Granville Sharp about the slave trade; that year he was the first to tell Sharp about the Zong massacre, which was...

form the nucleus of the Shaw–Hellier Collection, and the abolitionist Granville Sharp. The catalogue accompanying the National Portrait Gallery exhibition...

Thomas Granville Sharp (born 7 November 1977) is an English cricketer born at Truro in Cornwall whoo has played in the Cornwall Cricket League . Before...

against slavery. These included influential men such as James Ramsay and Granville Sharp, many Quakers, and other nonconformists. The movement had been gathering...

G-sharp, G♯ or G# may refer to: G-sharp minor, a musical key G-sharp major, a musical key G♯ (musical note) Granville Sharp, an eighteenth-century abolitionist...

However, slavery was reinstated in 1751. He also encouraged his friends Granville Sharp and Hannah More to pursue the cause vigorously. Soon after his death...

towards abolishing slavery throughout the world. Some of the group, Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, were responsible for the...

became a Christian, adopting the forenames Henry and Granville to honour Henry Thornton and Granville Sharp. Naimbanna died of unknown causes in July 1793....

Votes % ±% Unionist Richard Colvin 15,300 59.9 −12.7 Liberal Gilbert Granville Sharp 10,228 40.1 +19.5 Majority 5,072 19.8 −32.8 Turnout 25,528 63.5 +11...

man who was to be shipped back to the West Indies. Cugoano contacted Granville Sharp, a well-known abolitionist, who was able to have Demane removed from...

in his life, Hoare wrote 20 plays. He also compiled the Memoirs of Granville Sharp (1820), based on the British abolitionist's manuscripts, family documents...

campaigning material and visited parliament. They wrote to figures such as Granville Sharp, William Pitt and other members of the white abolition movement, as...

as Viscount Granville from 1815 to 1833, and as Earl Granville from 1833-36; British diplomat Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, (1815-1891)...

abolitionists, filed a Habeas corpus case with the courts and enlisted Granville Sharp to aid Somerset. The case, Somerset v Stewart, saw powerful interests...

considered to be one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone, alongside Granville Sharp, Thomas Peters, and Henry Thornton. To this day, the last prayer by...

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Parliament. This supremacy would be challenged by the likes of Granville Sharp. Sharp regarded Magna Carta as a fundamental part of the constitution,...