The Earl of Shaftesbury | |
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| Member of the British Parliament for Dorchester | |
| In office 30 January 1790 – 11 June 1790 | |
| In office 14 April 1791 – 14 May 1811[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 December 1768 |
| Died | 2 June 1851(1851-06-02) (aged 82) |
| Spouse | Lady Anne Spencer |
| Children | 10 |
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Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury (21 December 1768 – 2 June 1851[1]), styled The Honourable Cropley Ashley-Cooper until 1811, was a British politician. He was the father of the social reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Background
Shaftesbury was a younger son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, by his second wife Mary, daughter of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone. He was educated at Winchester School and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]
Political career
Shaftesbury was elected Member of Parliament for Dorchester in 1790, a seat he held until 1811.[2] The latter year he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the House of Lords, in which he served as Chairman of Committees.[3]
Family
Lord Shaftesbury married Lady Anne, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, on 10 December 1796.[1] They had nine children:
- Lady Harriet Anne Ashley-Cooper married Henry Lowry-Corry and was the mother of Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton
- Lady Caroline Mary Ashley-Cooper
- Charlotte Barbara Ashley-Cooper
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
- Anthony William Ashley-Cooper[4][5]
- Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper
- Anthony John Ashley-Cooper, who married Julia Conyers, heiress of Henry John Conyers of Copped Hall
- Anthony Francis Ashley-Cooper (1810–1825), killed in a pugilistic contest while at Eton.
- Anthony Lionel Ashley-Cooper
Lord Shaftesbury died in June 1851, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son, Anthony, the noted social reformer.
References
- Smith, E.A. "ASHLEY (ASHLEY COOPER), Hon. Cropley (1768-1851), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- "leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
- "The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies". 1835.
- Lodge, Edmund (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Hurst & Blackett. pp. 55, 510–511.
- "ASHLEY COOPER".