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Personal data Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER 

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Household of Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER

He is married to Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina CHICHESTER.

They got married on August 22, 1857 at London, England, United Kingdom, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER  1869-1961 


Notes about Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt DL (27 June 1831 – 13 April 1886), styled Lord Ashley between 1851 and 1885, was a British peer. Ashley was the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. He was commissioned a cornet in the Dorsetshire Yeomanry on 26 July 1856[1] and was promoted lieutenant on 21 January 1857.[2] On 27 January 1857, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Dorset.[3] He resigned his Yeomanry commission in April 1859.[4] He was Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull from 1857 to 1859[5] and Cricklade from 1859 to 1865.[6] He was a patron and member of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.[7]

On 7 June 1858, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Antrim Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia.[8] On 16 March 1860, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.[9] He resigned his commission in the South Middlesex on 6 September 1860 to become a captain in the London Irish Volunteer Corps on 17 September.[10][11]

On 7 September 1860, he was promoted to a captaincy in the Antrim Militia,[12] which he resigned in early 1862.[13] He resigned his commission in the London Irish Volunteer Corps on 1 April 1863.[14] On 6 February 1862, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Dorsetshire Regiment of Militia,[15] a position he held until 1 June 1872.[16]

On 12 May 1875, he was appointed lieutenant-commanding of the London Corps of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers,[17] and on 7 June 1880, he became honorary commander of the London Brigade, RNAV.[18]

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Family
Lord Shaftesbury married Lady Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester (d. 14 April 1898), only daughter (and only surviving child) of George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall, on 22 August 1857. They had six children:

Lady Margaret Ashley-Cooper (1858–1931), married Captain Theophilus Levett son of Theophilus John Levett MP.
Lady Evelyn Ashley-Cooper (1865–1931), married firstly James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baron Magheramorne, and secondly Captain Hon. Hugo Baring (sixth son of the 1st Baron Revelstoke)
Lady Mildred Ashley-Cooper (1867–1958), married Hon. George Allsopp.
Lady Violet Ashley-Cooper (1868–1938), married Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (1869–1961), married Lady Constance Grosvenor, elder daughter of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, eldest son of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
Lady Ethel Maud Ashley-Cooper (1870–1945), married Sir George Warrender – she was known as Lady Maud Warrender, a singer and patron of music, and a personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife
Styles of address
1831–1851: The Honourable Anthony Ashley-Cooper
1851–1857: Lord Ashley
1857: Lord Ashley DL
1857–1865: Lord Ashley MP DL
1865–1885: Lord Ashley DL
1885–1886: The Right Honourable The Earl of Shaftesbury DL
Death
Lord Shaftesbury committed suicide six months after succeeding to the title.

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Birthday June 27, 1831

  • The temperature on June 27, 1831 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1831: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • April 12 » Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
    • July 13 » Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
    • August 29 » Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
    • September 1 » The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
    • December 27 » Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMSBeagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
    • December 31 » Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

Day of marriage August 22, 1857

  • The temperature on August 22, 1857 was about 23.3 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 1, 1856 to March 18, 1858 the cabinet Van der Brugghen, with Mr. J.L.L. van der Brugghen (protestant) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1857: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • March 29 » Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
    • April 18 » "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
    • May 26 » Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
    • September 12 » The SSCentral America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
    • September 20 » The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
    • October 24 » Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.

Day of death April 13, 1886

  • The temperature on April 13, 1886 was about 13.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
    • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
    • August 31 » The 7.0 Mw  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
    • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.


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