Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist mb-height 7048 A General Election was looming

A General Election was looming

not for peace

Little Ilford

With the City arms in an ornamental cartouche with Mercury

A scene taken from the three-part mock-heroic satire Sir Hudibras by Samuel Butler

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist mb-height 7048 A General Election was loomingAnthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist, c1890. Lord Shaftesbury (1801 1885) piloted a number of reforming acts through Parliament including the factory acts of 1847, 1850 and 1859 resulting in a 10 hour working day, and the Coal Mines Act of 1842 which outlawed the employment of women and of children under 13 underground. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London,