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Cooper, Anthony Ashley ___ 1621-1683
___ British ___ politician
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Cooper, born in the county of Dorset,
suffered the death of both his parents at a young age and was educated by
Puritan tutors, and then at Exeter College, Oxford. he married Margaret,
the daughter of Lord Coventry, when only 18, but she died young. Cooper
was admitted into Lincoln's Inn, and subsequently was elected to the Short
Parliament for the borough of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, where his family
owned land. When he was elected to the Long Parliament for Poole in his
native Dorset, his appointment was blocked by Denzil Holles. At the start
of the Civil War, Cooper supported the King but then changed sides, and
eventually joined Cromwell's Council of State. He married for a second time
in 1950, to Lady Francis Cecil. Falling out with Cromwell, he left the Council
of State in 1655, and later returned to the royalist cause, supporting the
Restoration of Charles II. Thereafter, he served on the commission that
tried the Regicides, was created Baron Ashley and appointed Chancellor of
the Exchequer. In 1663, he was one of eight Lords Proprietors given title
to a huge tract of land in North America, which eventually became the Province
of Carolina. After the fall of Lord Clarendon in 1667, Cooper became a prominent
member of the Cabal, and then, in 1672, was appointed Lord Chancellor. He
was created Earl of Shaftesbury and Baron Cooper of Pawlett, and took on
a further appointment as First Lord of Trade. Because of his opposition
to the succession of the Duke of York, Shaftesbury fell from favour, and
became a leader of the radical Whigs. He was charged with high treason,
but then, when the charges were dismissed, he fled to the Netherlands, fearing
he might be charged again, and died there.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1646-1650 ___ political family
health
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British
Library, Manuscript Collections
___ possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
A life of Anthony Ashley Cooper,
first Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683
December 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |