Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846 Philanthropist Son of John Clarkson, schoolmaster of Wisbech, Cambs Educated at St Paul’s 1775-80 Published prize essay against slavery 1786 Agitated for the abolition of slavery 1787-94 and 1805-33 Urged aboliton on the French Government 1789-90 and the Czar 1818 Granted Freedom of London 1839 2 Silhouettes Granville Sharp possibly 10 November 1735-6 July 1813 Of Durham Son of Thomas Sharp (1693-1758) and his wife Judith Wheler Philanthropist, pamphleteer and scholar Member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1769 published A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery Campaigned for Parliamentary reform or Sir Cuthbert Sharp possibly 1781-1849 Educated under Dr Burney at Greenwich Antiquary Cavalry officer in Ireland during rebellion 1799 Visited Paris 1803 and detained as prisoner of war Collector of customs at Sunderland and Newcastle – From: Miscellaneous documents,Quaker Silhouette Portraits