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Anthony Ashley- Cooper, seventh earl of Shaftesbury
(1801-1885)
NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885
NRA:    Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1801-1885) 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist
DNB:    Cooper, Anthony Ashley-, seventh earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), philanthropist and politician
LBT ID: LdShaft7    VIAF ID: 22944637    LOC ID: n50003109		B/BAP:   1801-04-28
DIED:   1885-10-01
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
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.
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