The Methodists had begun as a group of divinity students at Oxford University during the late 1720s who were dismayed by what they perceived as a state of apathy and dryness in the mainstream Anglican Church. ![]() His aunt, Hannah, had become a devotée of George Whitefield, an Anglican minister who, along with the brothers John and Charles Wesley, is regarded as one of the founders of Methodism. His father, Robert Wilberforce, died when William was eight years old, and his mother, Elizabeth, sent him to live with an aunt and uncle in London. ![]() William Wilberforce was born in 1759 into a prosperous merchant family in the North Sea port city of Hull, in England. Portrait of Wilberforce courtesy of Kevin Belmonte, lead historical consultant for "Amazing Grace"
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