Cropley Ashley- Cooper, sixth earl of Shaftesbury

(1768-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shaftesbury, Cropley Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1768-1851 NRA: Cooper, Cropley Ashley (1768-1851) 6th Earl of Shaftesbury LBT ID: LdShaft6	B/BAP: 1768-12-21 DIED: 1851-06-02
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The son of the fourth earl; in 1796 he married Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and after succeeding his brother in 1811 was chairman of committees in the House of Lords from 1814.
REFERENCES TO Cropley Ashley- Cooper, sixth earl of Shaftesbury: Countess of Charleville to Lady Morgan, 13 July 1819 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 12 March 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 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 1: ¶ 29 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VIII Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1830-31 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 53