Person
Anthony Ashley-Cooper
- Slug
- anthony-ashley-cooper-471
- Alternative names
- Right Honourable, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Ashley, the Poor Man's Earl
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Noble, Philanthropist, Politician
Ashley was a British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer. He campaigned for better working conditions, reform to lunacy laws, education and the limitation of child labour. He was also an early supporter of the Zionist movement and the YMCA and a leading figure in the evangelical movement in the Church of England. He married and had ten children with Lady Emily Caroline Catherine Frances Cowper.
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Knows
- Duke of Wellington, political