[1] He was educated at a school in Cambridgeshire before attending Trinity College, Cambridge in 1817–1820, and was then admitted to study at the Middle Temple.
[1] He was a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire and for Middlesex, and at the 1837 general election was returned as a Conservative for Kingston upon Hull, a seat his father had represented in the 1780s, but this was overturned by an election petition the following year.
[1] He did not return to Parliament, though he contested Taunton in the 1841 general election, and Bradford in a subsequent by-election.
[2] In 1850, Wilberforce converted to Catholicism,[1] along with his youngest brother, Henry, a parson in Kent.
[3] Four years later, a third brother, Robert, would also resign his Anglican archdeaconry and follow them.