The son of the sixth earl (d. 1851); he was asocial reformer who introduced legislation to relieve women and children laboring in coal mines and to limit the work-day for factory laborers to ten hours.

REFERENCES TO Anthony Ashley- Cooper, seventh earl of Shaftesbury:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 10 March 1829 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Robert Southey to John May, 1 March 1833 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, [30 September 1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 17 February 1841 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [19 March 1844] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Howden to Samuel Rogers, 29 March 1844 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [April 1844] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 26 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)