Wilberforce House

Wilberforce House, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
The Wilberforce House, High Street, Hull. Built in 1660, it was the home of the Wilberforce Family from 1711, merchants trading with Sweden and the Baltic. William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery campaigner, was born here in 1759. It is now a Museum covering Wilberforce's life and the abolition of the slave trade.
                
                
the Slave Museum inside the House
                
                
                
                
Peace Garden in Wilber House
                
                
Wilber Statue in his House courtyard
                
                
Wilber statue inside his House
                
                
Wilberforce House: Clapham Common
There is a row of very attractive houses on Clapham Common North Side, the largest is Wilberforce House, formerly Battersea Rise. They were built by John Hutt, a carpenter between 1714 - 20. Several of the 'Clapham Sect' lived in houses in this row.
John Thornton's youngest son, Henry, took a house called Battersea Rise on Clapham Common and invited Wilberforce to live with him there. Within two years the house on one side was occupied by Edward Eliot, Pitt's brother-in-law, and on the other by Charles Grant, the most influential of the Directors of the East India Company; while about the same time John Venn became Rector of Clapham and the initial group was formed. Granville Sharp and William Smith both lived at Clapham, but were a little removed from the inner circle which grew with the addition of Zachary Macaulay, the Governor of Sierra Leone and father of the historian, James Stephen, a lawyer from the West Indies, and Lord Teignmouth, a rather unsuccessful Governor-General of India. Most of them were members of Parliament and several were experts in various fields, Thornton in banking, Stephen in law, Grant in Indian affairs and Macaulay in literature.