ROBERT

See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

ISAAC

See also:

• ROBERT ISAAC WILBERFORCE (1802-18J7)
• WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL (1805-1873)
• WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM (1759—1833)

WILBERFORCE (1802-18J7)  , English clergyman and writer, second son of William Wilberforce, was born on the 19th of December 1802 . He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, taking a double first in 1823 . In 1826 he was chosen fellow of Oriel and was ordained, among his friends and colleagues being Newman, Pusey and Keble . For a few years he was one of the tutors at Oriel, but the provost, Edward Hawkins, disliked his religious views, and in 1831 he resigned and left Oxford . In 1832 he obtained the living of East Farleigh, Kent, which in 184o he exchanged for that of Burton Agnes, near Hull . In 1841 he was appointed archdeacon of the East Riding . About this time Wilberforce became very intimate with Manning, and many letters on theological and ecclesiastical questions passed between them . In 1851 Manning joined the Church of Rome, and three years later Wilberforce took the same step . He was preparing for his ordination when he died at Albano on the 3rd of February 1857 . He left two sons, the younger of whom, Edward Wilberforce (b . 1834), became one of the masters of the Supreme Court of Judicature . Edward's son, Lionel Robert Wilberforce (b .

1861), was in 'goo appointed

professor of physics in the university of Liverpool . R . I . Wilberforce assisted his brother Samuel to write the Life and to edit the Correspondence of his father . His other writin s include: Church Courts and Church Discipline (1843); Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist (1853) ; Doctrine of the Incarnation in Relation to Mankind and the Church (1848 and later editions); The Five Empires, a Sketch of Ancient History (184o) ; A Sketch of the History of Erastianism (1851) ; An Enquiry into the Principles of Church Authority (1854) and a romance, Rutilius and Lucius (1842) .