Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftesbury

(1621-1683)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683 NRA: Cooper Anthony Ashley (1621-1683) 1st Earl of Shaftesbury statesman DNB: Cooper, Anthony Ashley, first earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), politician LBT ID: LdShaft1 VIAF ID: 25404031 LOC ID: n50001461	B/BAP: 1621-07-22 DIED: 1683-01-21
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Whig politician; he patronized John Locke and was satirized by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel.
REFERENCES TO Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftesbury: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 3: ¶ n2 ¶ 30 ¶ n2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1799 Found 1: ¶ 3