Leading campaigner against the slave trade. A founding member of The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1787, whose work was later taken over by the Anti-Slavery Society.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Clarkson
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Buxton Memorial Fountain
Due to strong shadows it was only on our fourth visit that we managed to take...
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Sharpeville Massacre
This took place near the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws (these were an internal pa...
1 memorial
Lord Eldon
Lord Chancellor. 1st Earl of Eldon. Opposed both the abolition of the slave trade and Catholic emancipation.
1 memorial
Sir John Lawrence
Lord Mayor of London 1664-5. 2022: The book 'The Royal African Company' by K. G. Davies (Longmans Green, 1957) contains a list of the directors of the Royal African Company. Referring to Lawrence'...
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Mrs Catherine Smithies
Born as Catherine Bywater. Founded the Band of Mercy movement in Britain. She also campaigned against slavery but we can find no details. Her home, Earlham Grove House, built c.1865, has also been...
1 memorial
Robert Aske
Son of a draper. Worked as a haberdasher; 1643 became a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company; 1666 elected an Alderman of the City of London. He became Master of the Haberdashers' Company. But the r...
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