Granville Sharp

(1735-1813)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813 NRA: Sharp Granville (1735-1813) Philanthropist DNB: Sharp, Granville (1735–1813), author and slavery abolitionist LBT ID: GrSharp1813 VIAF ID: 49234753 LOC ID: n85067327	B/BAP: 1735-11-10 DIED: 1813-07-06
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After working as a clerk in the Ordinance Department he became a prominent abolitionist and supporter of evangelical and radical causes.
REFERENCES TO Granville Sharp: William Hazlitt to William Godwin, [1809?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch II. 1807-1810 Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 23 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811