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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was a British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer. He was the eldest son of the 6th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Anne Spencer (daughter of the 4th Duke of Marlborough ), and elder brother of Henry Ashley, MP .
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury was one of the most effective social and industrial reformers in 19th-century England. He was also the acknowledged leader of the evangelical movement within the Church of England. He was the eldest son of Cropley Cooper (a younger brother of the 5th
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a painting by John Collier. Public Domain. Anthony Ashley Cooper opened people's eyes to the oppression of the weakest and poorest among them and led the way to ease their misery. Stories about children growing up in harsh, unloving homes usually end with the children becoming social misfits.
nthony Ashley Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist, was the eldest son of the sixth earl, and of Anne, fourth daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough. He was born on 28 April 1801 at 24 Grosvenor Square, London, his father being then a younger brother of the family, but when his father succeeded to the title and estates in 1811 ...
The Chimney Sweepers Regulation Act, 1863. Ashley (who became the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury from 1851 after his father’s death, inheriting the family estates in Dorset) strongly opposed the use of children to clean chimneys, known as 'climbing boys'. In 1840, a revised Chimney Sweeps Act ( Gazette issue 19883) raised the minimum age of ...
Anthony Ashley Cooper Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury K.G. Born April 28 1801. Died October 1 1885. Endeared to his countrymen by a long life spent in the cause of the helpless and suffering. Love - Serve. He was born in London, a son of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Lady Anne Spencer-Churchill.
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7th Earl of Shaftesbury. The English social reformer and philanthropist Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), was a leading exponent in Victorian England of reform of a multitude of social evils. Anthony Ashley Cooper was born on April 28, 1801, and was known as Lord Ashley until he succeeded his father as Earl of ...
