Cropley Ashley-Cooper
Member of the British Parliament
for Dorchester
In office
30 January 1790 – 11 June 1790
In office
14 April 1791 – 14 May 1811[1]
6th Earl of Shaftesbury
In office
1811–1851
Succeeded byAnthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Personal details
Born21 December 1768
Died2 June 1851
SpouseLady Anne Spencer
Children10
Parents

Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt (21 December 1768 – 2 June 1851),[1] styled The Honourable Cropley Ashley-Cooper until 1811, was a British politician. He was the father of the social reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Background

Shaftesbury was a younger son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, by his second wife Mary, daughter of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone. He was educated at Winchester School and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

Political career

Shaftesbury was elected Member of Parliament for Dorchester in 1790, a seat he held until 1811.[2] 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.[3]

Family

Lord Shaftesbury married Lady Anne, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, on 10 December 1796.[1] They had ten children. Their second daughter Lady Harriet Anne married Henry Lowry-Corry and was the mother of Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton. Their fifth and penultimate son, Anthony Francis Ashley Cooper (1810–25), while at Eton was killed in a pugilistic contest. Two of Shaftesbury's other sons were Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper and Anthony William Ashley.[4][5]

Lord Shaftesbury died in June 1851, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son, Anthony, the noted social reformer.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Smith, E.A. "ASHLEY (ASHLEY COOPER), Hon. Cropley (1768-1851), of Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ "The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies". 1835.
  4. ↑ Lodge, Edmund (1872). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Hurst & Blackett. pp. 55, 510–511.
  5. ↑ Farrell, Stephen. "ASHLEY COOPER, Anthony John (1808-1867)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 8 August 2021.


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