Surname: Wilberforce Forename(s): Edward b. 1834. d. 1914. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, translator, and lawyer. Born in East Farleigh, Kent. Son of Robert
Isaac Wilberforce, archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Educated at Eton and
Trinity College, Oxford. Briefly served in the Royal Navy, worked as a barrister,
and acted as Master of the Supreme Court from 1899. Married Fannie Flash in 1860.
Author of novels One with Another (1865), and The Duke's Honour (1870), and edited the short-lived periodical The Idler (1856). Biographical information: At the Circulating Library. (BGL)