He was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1792 until his death. He was known as an orator and pushed for the abolition of the slave trade with his friend William Wilberforce. Much of his ministry ...

William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull, East Yorkshire. He attended Cambridge University, where he became friends with the future prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. In 1780 ...