Anthony Ashley Cooper 1621-1683
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Anthony Ashley COOPER, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-83
Biographical Note
Of St Giles, Wimborne, Cooper inherited a house and estate there from his mother Anne Ashley. MP for Tewkesbury in 1640.
Books
An inventory of the estate made in 1639 lists “the books that were in the study next to the white room most of them now being removed by Sir Anthony”, valued at £10. The probate inventory of the 2nd Earl, Anthony Ashley Cooper (1652-99) made in 1699, lists “Books in several volumes bought by my late Lord (the great Library being the present Earl’s)”.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Harris, Tim. "Cooper, Anthony Ashley, first earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Cooper, L. (ed), Two 17th century Dorset inventories, Dorset Record Society, 1974.