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| 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 |
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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. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Anthony Ashley- Cooper, seventh earl of Shaftesbury: Samuel Rogers to Lord Shaftesbury, [November 1852] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Lord Shaftesbury to Samuel Rogers, 11 November 1852 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) | |
