Anthony Ashley-Cooper 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (Cromwell the Great)

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1695)was a prominent English politician and Lord President of the Commonwealth Council of State. Patron of John Locke.

Known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1630, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1630 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672,