About Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury
Lived 1768 – 1851 (aged 82). Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury was a British politician.
Political career Shaftesbury was elected Member of Parliament for Dorchester in 1790, a seat he held until 1811. The latter year he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the House of Lords, in which he served as Chairman of Committees.
Family Lord Shaftesbury married Lady Anne, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, on 10 December 1796. Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper Anthony John Ashley-Cooper, who married Julia Conyers, heiress of Henry John Conyers of Copped Hall Anthony Francis Ashley-Cooper (1810–1825), killed in a pugilistic contest while at Eton. Anthony Lionel Ashley-Cooper
Lord Shaftesbury died in June 1851, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son, Anthony, the noted social reformer.
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Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury was born on 21 December 1768 in Grosvenor Square.
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Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury died on 2 June 1851.
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Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury was a politician.
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