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)
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