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CAMPAIGNS AND SUCCESSES Its members were chiefly prominent and wealthy Evangelical Anglican s who shared common political views concerning the Liberation Of Slaves , the abolition of the Slave Trade and the reform of the penal system. The group's name originates from Clapham , then a village south of London (today part of south-west London), where both Wilberforce and Thornton , the sect's two most influential leaders, resided and where many of the group's meetings were held. They were supported by Beilby Porteus , Bishop Of London , who sympathised with many of their aims. After many decades of work both in Parliament and in general society, they and their successors saw their efforts rewarded, as England finally banned the Slave Trade , both in the British Isles and the Empire , and used its influence and power to eradicate legal Slavery throughout the world. Lampooned in their day as "the saints", the group published a journal, the ''Christian Observer'', and were also credited with the foundation of several missionary and tract societies, including the British And Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society . MEMBERS Members of The Clapham Sect included: Thomas Babington ( 1800 - 1859 }, 1st Baron Macaulay, MP for Calne Thomas Clarkson ( 1760 - 1846 ), classicist and campaigner Edward James Eliot ( 1758 - 1797 ), parliamentarian Thomas Gisbourne ( 1758 - 1846 ), clergyman and author Charles Grant ( 1746 - 1823 ), administrator, chairman of the directors of the British East India Company , father of the first Lord Glenelg Zachary Macaulay ( 1768 - 1838 ), estate manager, colonial governor, father of Thomas Macaulay Hannah More ( 1745 - 1835 ), writer and philanthropist Granville Sharp ( 1735 - 1813 ), scholar and administrator Charles Simeon ( 1759 - 1836 ), Anglican minister, promoter of missions William Smith , M.P. ( 1756 - 1835 ), parliamentarian James Stephen ( 1758 - 1832 ), Master of Chancery Lord Teignmouth ( 1751 - 1834 ), Governor-General of India Henry Thornton ( 1760 - 1815 ), economist, banker, philanthropist, MP for Southwark , grandfather of writer E.M. Forster Henry Venn ( 1725 - 1797 ), founder of the group John Venn ( 1759 - 1813 ), Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham William Wilberforce , M.P. ( 1759 - 1833 ), parliamentarian, leading abolitionist |
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