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Hace 5 días · Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC, FRS, (22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683) was an English statesman and peer. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673.
Hace 3 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 1 día · The heir of Sir Anthony Ashley (created a baronet in 1622, d. 1628) was his daughter Anne (d. 1628), the wife of Sir John Cooper Bt (d. 1631), and Anne's was her son Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (Baron Ashley from 1661, earl of Shaftesbury from 1672, d. 1683), who bought what was apparently Roughmoor farm from Christopher Richmond alias Webb in 1650.
Hace 4 días · AND forasmuch as we have made and ordained the aforesaid Edward Earl of Clarendon, George Duke of Albemarle, William Earl of Craven, John Lord Berkeley, Anthony Lord Ashley, Sir George Carteret, Sir John Colleton, and Sir William Berkeley, their heirs, and assigns, the true Lords and Proprietors of all the province or territory ...
Hace 4 días · Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper: Poole had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate: 1656: Edward Boteler: January 1659: Colonel John Fitzjames: Samuel Bond: May 1659: John Pyne: One seat vacant: April 1660 George Cooper: Sir Walter Erle: 1661 Sir John Fitzjames (Sir) John Morton: 1670 Thomas Trenchard ...
Hace 4 días · Charleston Under Attack. In March 1780, the chaos and destruction of the Revolutionary War came to South Carolina. Over 10,000 British and German soldiers, under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, had landed at Drayton's Landing, 12 miles (19 km) to the north of the city of Charleston. On 29 March, the army crossed the Ashley River and dug in outside the city's landward defenses, beginning to ...
Hace 2 días · View the Hansard record of division 125 ( Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill) on Wednesday 17 April 2024.
