biography
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of
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pronunciation:
[shahftsbree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1801–85)
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| biography:
| Factory reformer and philanthropist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, entered parliament in 1826, and became the main spokesman of the factory reform movement. He piloted successive factory acts (1847, 1859) through parliament, prohibiting employment of women and children in the coal mines (1842), providing for care of the insane (1845), establishing a 10-hour day for factory workers (1847), providing lodging houses for the poor (1851) and rudimentary schooling for waifs. A leader of the evangelical movement within the Church of England, he succeeded to his earldom in 1851. |
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