Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper

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Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621–1683)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC, known 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

• A Letter from a Person of Quality to His Friend in the Country (1675)
• The Earl of Shaftsbury’s Speech in the House of Lords, upon the Debate of Appointing a Day for the Hearing Dr. Shirley’s Cause, the 20th of October, 1675