Granville Sharp. Thin-faced and punctilious, he was a descendant of Yorkshire Puritans and he looked the part. But this bookish, pious civil servant, who spent his spare time playing the flute, was the man who was to take on the slave owners of the so-called West India Interest and force the reluctant lawmakers of England to make a final and begrudged determination on the legality of slavery in Britain. He was to influence the lives of more people than he could possibly have imagined.
