Born at 24 Grosvenor Square. Promoted many reform causes, connected with factories, children, mental illness, housing. Also supported the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews. President of the Stratford Martyrs memorial committee. 1884 founded and became President of The Ragged School Union. c.1914 this became 'The Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union' and in 1944 The Shaftesbury Society. Lord Shaftesbury died Folkestone.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Shaftesbury - Harrow
The quotation is from Psalm 41, the King James Version. While at school, Sha...
Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain - Eros
The 1893 statue commonly known as 'Eros' was apparently erected as his brothe...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Stratford Martyrs
The event on 27 June 1556 was a big draw: "These 11 men and 2 women were brou...
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James Fegan
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1 memorial
Samuel Bourne Bevington
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