Ashley, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Baron

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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl Of - 1621–83, English statesman. In the English civil war he supported the crown until 1644 but then joined the parliamentarians. He was made a member of the Commonwealth council of state and supporte...