Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftsbury
1801–85
Politician and philanthropist. Urged reform of laws protecting factory workers, colliery workers, and chimney-sweeps. Succeeded to the earldom in 1851.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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