COOPER, Earl Anthony Ashley

1621 - 1682  (60 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	COOPER, Anthony Ashley
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	22 Jul 1621	Winbourne, St Giles, Dorset, England
  Christening	22 Jul 1621	Saint Giles in the Field, London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Jan 1682	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  Burial	22 Jan 1683	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  WAC	1 Jun 1882	SGEOR
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  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	MASSIE, Lucretia ,   c. 21 Feb 1632, Saint Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, EnglandSaint Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England d. DECEASED
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  1st Earl of Shaftesbury Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper was born in England and as a young boy both of his parents died. This left his inheritance with a trustee whom his father had appointed, Sir Daniel Norton. Norton also raised Lord Anthony Ashley and as his guardian hired Mr. Fletcher, a puritan as his tutor. This influence would play a part in his political views and actions he would later take. He married several times. First to Margaret Coventry 25 February 1639 who died 10 July 1649. His second wife was Frances Cecil 15 April 1650 and had two children with her, Anthony and Frances. Frances his daughter, died at the age of 19. On 30 August 1655, Cooper married his third wife, Margaret Spencer. Lord Anthony was very involved in the politics of the day. A fascinating story of his life and all that he did is actually on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Ashley_Cooper,_1st_Earl_of_Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley Cooper 1621–1640 Anthony Ashley Cooper was born in Dorset in 1621, and he would maintain important links with Dorset throughout his political career. Cooper was the eldest son and successor of Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet, of Rockbourne in Hampshire, and his mother was the former Anne Ashley, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet. He was born on 22 July 1621, at the home of his maternal grandfather Sir Anthony Ashley in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset.[1] He was named Anthony Ashley Cooper because of a promise the couple had made to Sir Anthony.[1] Although Sir Anthony Ashley was of minor gentry stock, he had served as Secretary at War in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and in 1622, two years after the death of his first wife, Sir Anthony Ashley married the 19-year-old Philippa Sheldon (51 years his junior), a relative of George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, thus cementing relations with the most powerful man at court.[1] Cooper's father was created a baronet in 1622, and he represented Poole in the parliaments of 1625 and 1628, supporting the attack on Richard Neile, Bishop of Winchester for his Arminian tendencies.[1] Sir Anthony Ashley insisted that a man with Puritan leanings, Aaron Guerdon, be chosen as Cooper's first tutor.[1] Cooper's mother died in 1628. In 1629, his father remarried, this time to the widowed Mary Moryson, one of the daughters of wealthy London textile merchant Baptist Hicks and co-heir of his fortune.[1] Through his stepmother, Cooper thus gained an important political connection in the form of her grandson, the future 1st Earl of Essex. Cooper's father died in 1630, leaving Cooper a wealthy orphan.[1] Upon his father's death, he inherited his father's baronetcy and was now Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper. Cooper's father had held his lands in knight-service, so Cooper's inheritance now came under the authority of the Court of Wards.[1] The trustees whom his father had appointed to administer his estate, his brother-in-law (Anthony Ashley Cooper's uncle by marriage) Edward Tooker and his colleague from the House of Commons, Sir Daniel Norton, purchased Cooper's wardship from the king, but they remained unable to sell Cooper's land without permission of the Court of Wards because, on his death, Sir John Cooper had left some £35,000 in gambling debts.[1] The Court of Wards ordered the sale of the best of Sir John's lands to pay his debts, with several sales commissioners picking up choice properties at £20,000 less than their market value, a circumstance which led Cooper to hate the Court of Wards as a corrupt institution.[1] Cooper was sent to live with his father's trustee Sir Daniel Norton in Southwick, Hampshire (near Portsmouth). Norton had joined in Sir John Cooper's denunciation of Arminianism in the 1628–29 parliament, and Norton chose a man with Puritan leanings named Fletcher as Cooper's tutor.[1]