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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

1801 - 1885

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury has received more than 500,875 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury is the 15,856th most popular politician (down from 14,761st in 2019), the 4,419th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,281st in 2019) and the 532nd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 15,856 out of 19,576. Before him are Jón Þorláksson, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Östen Undén, Anders Lange, Muiz ud din Bahram, and John Gorton. After him are Ted Kaufman, Tom Vilsack, Volen Siderov, Jennifer Granholm, Hamilton Fish, and Jacques Sylla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 81. Before him are Maria Röhl, Charles Combes, Jules Pierre Rambur, George Perkins Marsh, Robert J. Walker, and Wilhem de Haan. After him are Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Athanasios Vouros, and Samuel Gridley Howe. Among people deceased in 1885, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 77. Before him are Gaudenzio Marconi, Joseph-Alfred Serret, William Henry Vanderbilt, Bernhard Horwitz, Juan Bautista Topete, and José Posada Herrera. After him are Anthony W. Gardiner, Nísia Floresta, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Helen Hunt Jackson, John McCloskey, and Titian Peale.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 4,419 out of 8,785. Before him are James Collinson (1825), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), John Morton (1420), Maud Gonne (1866), Gavin Bryars (1943), and Thomas Nuttall (1786). After him are Richard Garriott (1961), Abraham Cowley (1618), Jeremy Spencer (1948), Richard Sinclair (1948), Randolph Caldecott (1846), and Susan Haack (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 532. Before him are Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Arthur Whitten Brown (1886), John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), Reggie Pridmore (1886), and John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751). After him are Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Keir Hardie (1856), John Prescott (1938), George Reid (1845), Robert Moray (1609), and George Galloway (1954).

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