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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

1621 - 1683

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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC, FRS (22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683), was an English statesman and peer. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673. During the Exclusion Crisis, Shaftesbury headed the movement to bar the Catholic heir, James II, from the royal succession, which is often seen as the origin of the Whig party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury has received more than 376,775 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury is the 13,100th most popular politician (down from 11,066th in 2019), the 2,936th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,442nd in 2019) and the 423rd most popular British Politician.

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  • 3.11

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  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 13,100 out of 19,576. Before him are Alla Kushnir, Paul von Hintze, Sin Sukju, Qabus, Tlepolemus, and José Santos Zelaya. After him are Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Geoffrey Howe, John Warner, Jutta Rüdiger, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Islam Shah Suri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 17. Before him are Isaac van Ostade, Shi Lang, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Jan Baptist Weenix, Matthew Locke, and John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. After him are Andrew Marvell, Bohuslav Balbín, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Wacław Potocki, and Henry Vaughan. Among people deceased in 1683, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 14. Before him are Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Jacob Stainer, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Juraj Križanić, and John Owen. After him are Algernon Sidney, Robert Morison, and Izaak Walton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 2,936 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Hogwood (1941), Joe Jordan (1951), Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Reece James (1999), and Francis Lee (1944). After him are Ronald Neame (1911), Geoffrey Howe (1926), Teresa Ann Savoy (1955), Steven Knight (1959), Anabella Drummond (1350), and Mary Beale (1633).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ranks 423. Before him are Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), Ceolwulf of Wessex (600), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), Elizabeth Fry (1780), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), and Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812). After him are Geoffrey Howe (1926), Phil Taylor (1960), Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645), Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798), Enoch Powell (1912), and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872).

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