Rev. John Venn
Clergyman and anti-slavery campaigner. Born Clapham, son of the vicar at the time. 1792, under John Thornton's will, appointed rector of Clapham, a post he held until his death and where he was a...
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Queen Victoria
Reigned: 1837-1901, 64 years. Born Kensington Palace. Daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. Niece of her predecessor, King William IV. Her first name was Alexandrin...
72 memorials
Sir Robert Viner (or Vyner)
Lord Mayor of London, 1674-5. Born Warwick. Goldsmith and banker. Lived at Swakeleys House in Ickenham, where a school is named for him. Died Windsor. Involved in the slave trade.
2 memorials
Voltaire
Born in Paris as Francois Marie Arouet. Adopted the name Voltaire aged 24. The traditional story is that the intolerance of Catholic France forced this free-thinker to escape to the land of liberty...
1 memorial
Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
1 memorial
Herman Wallace
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
4 memorials
Maria Hawes Ware
Daughter of Sir John Gurney. Her husband, Robert Ware was a significant slave owner in British Guiana. When he died in 1824 he left 148 slaves. After a legal battle she inherited all his wealth in...
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Robert Wedderburn
Wikipedia tells the sorry story of this man. Born to a West African slave woman in Jamaica, his father, James Wedderburn, being a Scottish doctor and plantation owner, who had children by several ...
1 memorial
Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
4 memorials
Duke of Wellington
Born Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley) in Dublin to Irish parents. After the Battle of Waterloo in which 60,000 died Wellington wrote to a friend "Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a batt...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Ireland
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