Identity area
Reference code
Slavery/Box 3/14
Unique identifier
GB 275 Slavery/Box 3/14
Title
'A letter to his excellency the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord, on the subject of the slave trade' (London: J. Hatchard)
Date(s)
- 1814 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
83p
Context area
Name of creator
(1759-1833)
Biographical history
Entered St John's 1776; BA 1781; MA 1788; MP for Hull 1780-4; for Yorkshire 1784-1812; for Bamber 1812-25; Founded the Proclamation Society, for the suppression of vice, in 1787; Parliamentary leader for the cause for the abolition of slavery from 1787; carried the bill through the House of Commons 1807; retired from political life 1825, due to ill-health; buried in Westminster Abbey.