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Hace 4 días · Antony Ashley Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, the philanthropist, died on 1 October 1885. Sixteen days later a public meeting was held at the Mansion House to consider the erection of a national memorial (fn. 9) and on 28 October the Shaftesbury Memorial Committee, under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor, decided that 'two ...
Hace 13 horas · Important intellectuals For a more comprehensive list, see List of intellectuals of the Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment was preceded by and closely associated with the Scientific Revolution. Earlier philosophers whose work influenced the Enlightenment included Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Some of ...
Hace 4 días · They had no legitimate children, although at least one of Lord Cowper's putative children, Lady Emily Cowper, the wife of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was widely believed to have been fathered by Palmerston.
Hace 5 días · Mr. Bulkley, Mr. Grove, Sir Henry Vane, Mr. Morris, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Mr. Trevor, Mr. Annesley, Mr. Nathaniel Bacon, Mr. Dixwell, Colonel Clarke, Mr. Godfrey, Colonel Birch, Mr. Knightley, Lord Marquis of Arguile, Major Beake, Mr. Swinfen, Mr. Cary Raleigh, are appointed to be the Committee for drawing up the said Declaration: And they ...
Hace 3 días · For the County of Wilts, Philip Earl of Pembrook, John Bradshaw Serjt. at Law, Robert Nicholas Serjeant at Law, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Baronet, Alexander Popham, Edmund Ludlow, Philip Smith, Edward Tooker, William Eyre of Nesbone, Michael Oldsworth, George Cooper, John Dove, William Ludlow, William Cole of Downton, Nicholas Green ...
Hace 5 días · Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, son of the last, redeemed the manor from the Court of Wards in 1648. He was created Baron Ashley in 1661 and earl of Shaftesbury in 1672 and died in 1683. The manor descended with the earldom of
Hace 5 días · In juxtaposing the dark predictions of Thomas Hobbes and the optimistic “Grand Design” fashioned by John Locke and Anthony Ashley Cooper, the opening pages of The Grim Years present two remarkably different visions of what might transpire in Carolina.
