Samuel Wilberforce

Evangelical Bishop Samuel Wilberforce established the first theological college in England, at Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire.

T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce clashed over evolution at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford.

A group of seven liberal or Broad Church clergymen published Essays and Reviews on the challenges posed to conventional theology by the Higher Criticism of the Bible and by science (namely biology and geology).