'''Samuel Wilberforce''' (1804-1873) was the [[Bishop]] of [[Oxford]], [[England]]. He achieved worldwide renown for opposing the '[[theory of evolution]]' of [[Charles Darwin]]. He died after having fallen off a [[horse]].
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'''Samuel Wilberforce''' (1804-1873) was the [[Bishop]] of [[Oxford]], [[England]]. He is best known for his participation in the famous debate in 1860 on the'[[theory of evolution]]' with [[TH Huxley]] in which he is generally thought to have been the loser. He was a major figure in the continuation of the Oxford Movement which sought to introduce the practices of the Catholic Church into the Church of England.
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He was the son of the antislavery activist [[William Wilberforce]]