Anthony Ashley-Cooper
British politician
Died when: 84 years 156 days (1013 months)Star Sign: Taurus
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 his wife, Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of The 4th Duke of Marlborough, and older brother of Henry Ashley, MP.
As a social reformer who was called the "Poor Man's Earl", 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.
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