Biography

"ranville Sharp (1735-1813), slavery abolitionist, was born at Durham, the ninth son of the Revd. Thomas Sharp (1693-1758) and his wife Judith (Wheler) (d.1757). Granville's interest in the abolition of slavery may have started when he championed a slave being tended by his brother William for injuries inflicted by his owner. He was one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London and worked with William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. He died unmarried on 6 July 1813 and his tomb is in Fulham churchyard."