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Please insert the following information: Anthony 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and Emily had 10 children: Antony, Francis, Maurice, Evelyn, Lionel, Victoria, Mary, Constance, Edity and Cecil. I obtained this information from the genealogy of the Ashley-Cooper Family in "The Seventh Earl" By Grace Irwin
Based on this individual being included in the Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Australia), I am adding the Category:Anglican saints and the Saints WikiProject banner to this article. I am awaiting reliable sources which can be used to add the content to the article. John Carter 16:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, reformatted to wrap properly but with typos intact. This reads like an old article from
The Children's Encyclopedia, but I don't know if that's where it came from:
Piccadilly Circus is the centre of London where many streets meet. In the middle of the Piccadilly there is a small island of stone, and on the island there is a statue called Eros. Eros holds a bow and arrow, and leans forward as if he is flying over London.On the steps below him women used to sit with baskets of violets and snowdrops, or bunches of pink carnations and tight little rosebuds.
All around are buses and lorries, and taxis and cars coming from north and south and east and west.Day and night the busy London traffic swirls round the small, stone island, and day after day people hurry past on their way to shops and theatres and staions and offices.
Everyone knowws Eros. Taxi drivers look up at him and say,
"Ah,Eros!Here we are at Piccadilly!"
Children, holding tightly to their mothers' hands as they cross the road, try to catch a gimpse of him between the rows of traffic. But no one seems to have time to go up the steps, and read the words that are written below the statue. Many people, though they know Eros so well, don't know at all why he is there.
He is there to remind them opf a story about a man called the Earl of Shaftesbury, who spent his whole life heping children.
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Dcoetzee 03:27, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The article is utterly misleading, because it focuses on a very minor aspect of Shaftesbury's life. His main interest was in the improvement of conditions for the poor, where he transformed UK legislation. This gets only a skimpy paragraph. By contrast there is endless stuff about Israel.
Can someone with time and knowledge rebalance this? 213.123.44.130 ( talk) 12:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I agree with the original poster of this section. One area of social reform for the poor and disabled is the creation of the Shaftesbury society (now livability.org.uk after joining with John Grooms, another social reformer, and also Prospects.
Livability is the sum of the merger of three long-standing charities: The Shaftesbury Society and John Grooms in 2007, and Prospects in 2016
See article on livability website for the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury https://www.livability.org.uk/people/patrons/nicholas-ashley-cooper-earl-of-shaftesbury/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbridge276 ( talk • contribs) 17:54, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Shaftesbury was a leading critic of the opium wars and trade, and there's no mention of this in the entry. It deserves a full section. Please message me if you can help me. I'm only a WikiGnome and not used to adding content. -- StringRay ( talk) 21:18, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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It is not clear how long Cooper was at Manor House school. He is said to have started there in 1808 and 1812. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.21.169 ( talk) 11:46, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Re: In early 1858 a Select Committee was appointed over concerns that sane persons were detained in lunatic asylums. Lord Shaftesbury (as Ashley had become upon his father's death in 1851) was the chief witness and opposed the suggestion that the certification of insanity be made more difficult and that early treatment of insanity was essential if there was to be any prospect of a cure. He claimed that only one or two people in his time dealing with lunacy had been detained in an asylum without sufficient grounds and that commissioners should be granted more not fewer powers. The Committee's Report endorsed all of Shaftesbury's recommendations except for one: that a magistrate's signature on a certificate of lunacy be made compulsory. This was not put into law chiefly due to Shaftesbury's opposition to it. The Report also agreed with Shaftesbury that unwarranted detentions were "extremely rare".[14]
Did Shaftesbury oppose or support that "early treatment of insanity was essential if there was to be any prospect of a cure"? This seems to say he opposed.
Was it the Committee or Shaftesbury that supported "a magistrate's signature on a certificate of lunacy be made compulsory"?
JDE 84.13.33.197 ( talk) 10:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
To editor Onceinawhile: Some years ago you added the Colonial Times article (which is actually a reprint from The Times of August 26, 1840, pp. 5–6 and carries 1839 dates). How do you know that Shaftesbury wrote it, as I can't see him named there? I don't doubt it, since I think I recall reading about it, but I can't find that now. Thanks. Zero talk 06:59, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
... On 9 March 1840 The Times published a long memorandum that was probably Shaftesbury's work. Addressed to the Protestant monarchs of Europe...
In 1839, two missionaries, Andrew Bonar and Robert M'Cheyne, were sent by the Church of Scotland to the Holy Land in order to prepare a report on the state of the Jews there. The resulting publication, entitled: Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for....) but I am not yet convinced.
@ Zero0000: did you ever figure out who might have written this? It shows up in a number of places in our encyclopedia, and the attribution needs to be corrected. Onceinawhile ( talk) 18:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
In 1841, a mission of inquiry sent by the Church of Scotland to Palestine issued a Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine, and called on them to take on the mantle of Cyrus and restore the people of Israel to their native land.6 A member of the mission, a Scottish clergyman named Alexander Keith, was the first to speak of ‘a people without a country; even as their own land...'" Reference 6 is "Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, Cambridge (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2010), p146". Page 146 of Green does not specify who wrote it (but it carefully avoids saying that Ashley wrote it even though Ashley is the subject of the passage). Green's reference is Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism, 1800-1918, 2 vols. (London, 1919), 1:124, 2:231-232, 235.
Onamynous added and I am removing this:
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help)This quotation, though usually not in such a misleadingly clipped form, appears in many places, with several versions of the reference. I believe it is fake, but I'll take that back if someone can prove otherwise. The "London Quarterly Review" was the American edition of The Quarterly Review. However, page 104 of Vol 64, 1939, contains nothing similar. Searching for the the solution, I thought it might just have the wrong volume number, since page 104 of Vol 63, 1939 sits in an article of Ashley Cooper called "State and Prospects of the Jews". That article has plenty about the Jews, but I believe it doesn't have the passage quoted here (can you find it?). Some other sources cite this quotation directly to "State and Prospects of the Jews" in the British edition, where it appears at page 166 of Vol 63. But the quotation isn't there either. Just to be sure, page 104 of Vol 64 in the British edition doesn't have it either. I see a journal article that attributes it to a 1908 book of Gidney, but it isn't there. I suspect that someone in the past wrote what they considered a paraphrase then others took it up as a quotation. Meanwhile, Onamynous needs to read WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT. Zero talk 13:53, 10 March 2024 (UTC)