William Wilberforce

"An evangelical Christian and social reformer, Wilberforce dedicated himself to the 'suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners'. He entered Parliament in 1780 as a Tory MP and was the Parliamentary leader of the Abolition movement from 1787. After years of campaigning, Wilberforce's bill to end Britain's part in slave trading was passed to a standing ovation in 1807. A further act of 1833 provided for the emancipation of slaves in British colonies. Wilberforce in New South Wales is one of the original settlements established as a township by Lachlan Macquarie, colonial governor of New South Wales 1810-21. Cape Wilberforce in the Northern Territory was named by Matthew Flinders in 1803 after William Wilberforce." False-mounted.