Date of birth: September 7, 1805
Date of death: July 19, 1873
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Third son of William Wilberforce
Anglican clergyman who was successively Dean of Westminster (1845), Bishop of Oxford (1845-1870), and Bishop of Winchester (1870-1873)
Known by the nickname of "Soapy Sam"

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