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The Riddle of Samuel Wilberforce
The Riddle of Samuel Wilberforce
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, July 14, 2014 | 8:41 PM
Samuel Wilberforce also known as "Soapy Sam" was born at Clapham Common, London in 7 September 1805 and died in 19 July 1873. He was an English bishop in the Church of England. The "Soapy Sam" nickname was coined by Benjamin Disraeli because the bishop's manner was "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous". In 1859 when Charles Darwin published a book about the theory of evolution which entitled "On