Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683)

For authors with similar names, see Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper.

←

Anthony Ashley Cooper
(1621–1683)

→

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item

1st Earl of Shaftesbury; PC, known as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet, from 1631 to 1661 and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II. A founder of the Whig party, he is probably best known as the patron of John Locke.

Works

Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina of 1669
A Letter from a Person of Quality to His Friend in the Country (1675)
The Earl of Shaftsbury’s Speech in the House of Lords, upon the Debate of Appointing a Day for the Hearing Dr. Shirley’s Cause, the 20th of October, 1675
The Earl of Shaftesbury's Speech in the House of Lords, March 25, 1679
A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm (1681) (external scan)
An impartial account of the nature and tendency of the late addresses (1681) 52pp. (external scan)
A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules (1713) 50 pp. (external scan)
Memoirs, letters, and speeches, of Anthony Ashley Cooper, with other papers (1859) (external scan)
Speeches of the Earl of Shaftesbury … upon subjects relating to the claims and interests of the labouring class (1868) (external scan)
The life, unpublished letters, and philosophical regimen (1900) (external scan)

Works about Cooper

Honesty's best policy, or, Penitence the sum of prudence (1677) by Marchamont Nedham, (external scan)
"Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1621-1683)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse