Men-at-the-Bar/Wilberforce, William

by Joseph Foster

Wilberforce, William, B.A., St. Mary Hall, Oxon, 1846, a student of Lincoln's Inn 19 Jan., 1846 (then aged 24), called to the bar 3 May, 1849 (only son of late William Wilberforce, Esq., of Markinton, Yorks); born 6 Dec., 1821; married 1st, 30 April, 1849, Rosa Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Jones, Esq., of Pentyr, North Wales; she died 20 April, 1878; he married 2ndly, 17 May, 1879, Angela Frances, widow of George Hamilton Roe, M.D., eldest dau. of Rev. Henry John Owen, M.A., of Chelsea, and has issue (see Foster's Yorkshire Collection).

Ingerthorpe Grange and Markington Hall, Ripley, Yorkshire; South Bank, Surbiton; Whitehead's Grove, Chelsea.