biography
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of
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pronunciation:
[shahftsbree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1621–83)
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| biography:
| English statesman, born in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a member of the Short Parliament (1640) and of the Barebones Parliament (1653), and was made one of Cromwell's Council of State, but from 1655 was in Opposition. At the Restoration he became a baron and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1661–72), a member of the Cabal (1667), an earl (1672), and Lord Chancellor (1672–3). He was dismissed in 1673, and led the opposition to the succession of James, Duke of York (later James II). Charged with treason in 1681, he was acquitted, but fled to Holland in 1682. |
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