Samuel Wilberforce FRS (1805–1873), son of anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce, was one of the greatest public speakers of his day and is probably best known today for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and specifically for his role in debating Thomas Henry Huxley on the subject in a famous 1860 debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

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