Sir Earl Anthony Ashley-Cooper KG
(1801-1885)
Old Harrovian, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (from 1851), and 732nd Knight of the Order of the Garter (from 1862)
Died aged c. 84
Wikidata WikipediaAnthony 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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Commemorated on 1 plaque
Near this spot Anthony Ashley-Cooper, afterwards 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG, while yet a boy in Harrow School, saw with shame and indignation the pauper's funeral, which helped to awaken his lifelong devotion to the service of the poor and oppressed. "Blessed is he that considereth the poor"
Old Schools, Church Hill, Harrow-on-the-Hill, United Kingdom where they saw with shame and indignation the pauper's funeral, which helped to awaken his lifelong devotion to the service of the poor an oppressed