Samuel Wilberforce
(1805-1873), Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester; son of William Wilberforce; Trustee of the National Portrait GalleryEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 84 portraits
Bishop of Oxford, 1845-69 introduced many reforms and improved diocesan organisation; dynamic energetic and intemperate, as shown by his unfortunate attack on Darwinian theories in 1860, when he attracted much ridicule.
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 18 April 1862
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by Thomas Richard Williams
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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by Thomas Richard Williams
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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by Thomas Richard Williams
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 18 April 1862
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by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 18 April 1862
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by John Beattie
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
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'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Alfred Richard Mowbray
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
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by Unknown photographer
albumen print, September 1865
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by Unknown photographer
albumen print, September 1865
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by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1867
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by Mason & Co (Robert Hindry Mason)
albumen print, September 1867
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by Mason & Co (Robert Hindry Mason)
albumen print, September 1867
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by John Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1870s
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by John Watkins
albumen print, 1870s
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by John Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1870s
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by Adams & Stilliard
albumen carte-de-visite, 1873
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by Adams & Stilliard
albumen carte-de-visite, January 1873
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Related People
- Agnes Everilda Mary Froude (née Wilberforce) (niece)
- Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce (son)
- (Bertrand) Arthur Henry Wilberforce (nephew)
- Caroline Mary Wilberforce (niece)
- Ernest Roland Wilberforce (son)
- Henry Edward Wilberforce (nephew)
- Henry William Wilberforce (brother)
- Sir Herbert William Wilberforce (grandson)
- Reginald Garton Wilberforce (son)
- Wilfrid Ignatius Wilberforce (nephew)
- William Wilberforce (father)
- William Wilberforce (brother)
- William Francis Wilberforce (nephew)
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