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Anthony Asblley-Cooper, Lord Ashley
later 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Nineteenth century politician - MP for Woodstock,
social reformer and philanthropist
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From his ancestral country estate of St. Giles House in Wimbome St. Giles, Dorset, Lord Ashley writes on the second
day of 1840, and includes as a postscript the words "we must keep a sharp look out even now. for I see daily !nstances
of Cruelty in the Papers." · ·
