Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop and the son of William Wilberforce.

Quotes

 * 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.


 * 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

 * 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