Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Details

Instance of

human

Born

22 July 1621

Died

21 January 1683

Place of birth

Dorset

Place of death

Amsterdam

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Anthony

Family name

Cooper

Father

Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet

Mother

Anne Ashley

Spouse

Margaret Spencer, Margaret Coventry, Lady Frances Cecil

Child

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, Cecil Ashley-Cooper

Sibling

George Cooper

Occupation

politician, judge, writer, jurist

Position held

Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, President of the Board of Trade, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of the April 1640 Parliament, Member of the Third Protectorate Parliament, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament, Member of the 1653 Parliament, Member of the April 1660 Parliament, Lord President of the Council, Lord Chancellor, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset

Citizenship

Kingdom of England

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society

birth name

Anthony Ashley Cooper

depicted by

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

described by source

Nordisk familjebok, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

different from

Anthony Ashley-Cooper

educated at

Exeter College

honorific suffix

privy council

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

Royal Society, Short Parliament

member of political party

Whigs

name

Achitophel

noble title

Earl of Shaftesbury

place of burial

Church of St Giles, Wimborne St Giles

place of detention

Tower of London

writing language

English

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