Westminster Abbey politicians, doctors and scientists such as Isaac Newton, buried on 4 April 1727, Charles Darwin, buried on 26 April 1882, and Stephen Hawking, buried on 15 June 2018. Another was William Wilberforce who led the movement to abolish slavery in the United Kingdom and the Plantations, buried on 3 August 1833. Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend, the former Prime Minister, William Pitt. During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey. In 1905 the actor Sir Henry Irving was cremated and his ashes buried
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 not the objective of the earliest organised British movements. The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which established the "Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" in Britain in 1787, campaigned for an end to the Transatlantic slave trade from Western Africa to the New World, which Britain dominated. Much later, the Anti-Slavery Society became the everyday name of 2 different British organizations. The first was the 1823 "Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions" (Slavery Abolition Act 1833), and the second, the 1839 "The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society" -