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British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer
- 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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
Near the west door of Westminster Abbey is a statue to politician and philanthropist Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was unveiled on 1st October 1888 and is by the sculptor Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.
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.
May 4, 2012 · Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury – by John Collier. Shaftesbury was a proponent of the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land and became President of the London Jews’ Society from 1848 until his death in 1885.
Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, by F. Winter, 1886. In the collection of the Dorset Museum , Dorchester. " A land without a people for a people without a land " is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine during the 19th and 20th centuries.
