Samuel Wilberforce
Bishop in the Church of England
Samuel Wilberforce (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop and the son of William Wilberforce.
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Quotes
edit- Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?
- To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. [1]
- A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
- Quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 74
- Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.
- Of the Whig party.
- Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
- Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.
- Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Quotes about Samuel Wilberforce
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- He was the first of the Bishops of the Victorian age to show what the duties of a bishop were. He may truly be said to have recast the whole idea of the Episcopate, and to have successfully raised the tone of clerical life.
- Sabine Baring-Gould, The Church Revival (1914), p. 175
- I do not quite like hearing you, for you make me cry.
- Charles James Blomfield, quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
- The Bishop was the Holy Terror of his time; he shows up on the wrong side of every dispute.
- Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962), p. 73
- I admired and liked him most before he became a Bishop, and before he leant so much to those High Church views which did harm.
- Queen Victoria, Letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, p. 264
