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- Granville Maynard Sharp (5 January 1906 – 8 August 1997) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Granville Maynard Sharp (5 January 1906 – 8 August 1997) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Sharp was educated at Cleckheaton Grammar School, Ashville College in Harrogate, and St John's College, Cambridge.
Granville Sharp (10 November 1735 – 6 July 1813) was a British scholar, devout Christian, philanthropist and one of the first campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. Born in Durham, he initially worked as a civil servant in the Board of Ordnance.
Granville Sharp Esquire, engraved by Charles Turner 1806 © Sharp was a leading British abolitionist and instigator of the first settlement of freed African slaves in Sierra Leone.
Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a London draper, but in 1758 he entered the government ordnance department.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Granville Sharp (1735–1813) was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. He was the author of several anti-slavery pamphlets, including A Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England, etc. (London, 1769), the first ...
Granville Sharp (1735-1813), who campaigned for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, was born at Durham, the ninth son of the Reverend Thomas Sharp (1693-1758) and his wife Judith (Wheler) (d.1757).
One of the 12 men who formed the Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in 1787 at 2 George Yard was Granville Sharp (from 1735 to 1813). Sharp was a civil servant who devoted much of his life to campaigning against slavery.
