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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: William Fox Talbot, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, High Sheriff of Wiltshire, John Thynne, Hugh Bardulf, Edmund Ludlow, William Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, Eric Phipps, John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet, Sir Christopher Peto, 3rd Baronet, Robert Long, John Bush, Richard Godolphin Long, John Seymour, Hugh Trefusis Brassey, John Dove, Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet, Nigel Anderson, Thomas Hungerford, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway, Henry Long, Sir Frederick Goldney, 3rd Baronet, John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, Charles Paul Phipps, John Lewis Phipps, Sir James Ashe, 2nd Baronet, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor, Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen, Fulke Greville, Bernard Brocas, Robert Parry Nisbet, Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps, Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Stephen of Thornham, Sir Edmund Antrobus, 3rd Baronet, Edward of Salisbury, Thomas Long of Draycot, Gifford Long, John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor, Richard Long, Sir John Astley, 1st Baronet, Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson, Sir George Seymour. Excerpt: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC (22 July 1621 - 21 January 1683), known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II. A founder of the Whig party, he is probably best known as the patron of John Locke. Anthony Ashley Cooper was born in 1621 and had lost both of his parents by age 8. He was raised by guardians named in his father's will, before attending Exeter College, Oxfor...
