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date: 12 October 2024

Samuel Wilberforce 1805–73
English prelate 

  1. Was it through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey?
    addressed to T. H. Huxley in the debate on Darwin's theory of evolution
    at a meeting of British Association in Oxford, 30 June 1860; see Disraeli, Huxley