Ancestral Trails 2016 » Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER (1711-1771)

Données personnelles Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER 

• Il est né le 9 février 1711 dans Reigate, Surrey.

  Attention: L'âge au mariage (12 mars 1724) était inférieur à 16 ans (13).

• Titre: 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
• Il est décédé le 27 mai 1771 dans Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, il avait 60 ans.
• Un enfant de Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER et Jane EWER

Famille de Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER

(1) Il est marié avec Mary de BOUVERIE.

Ils se sont mariés le 20 mars 1759, il avait 48 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER  1761-1811 
2. Cropley ASHLEY-COOPER  1768-1851 

(2) Il est marié avec Susannah NOEL.

Ils se sont mariés le 12 mars 1724, il avait 13 ans.

• Le couple a des ancêtres communs.



Notes par Anthony ASHLEY-COOPER

Ashley Cooper, Anthony (1711-71), 4th Earl of Shaftesbury. Only child of Anthony Ashley Cooper (1671-1713), 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Ewer of Bushey Hall and The Leas, Watford (Herts), born 9 February 1710/11.

At the age of five months he was left in England by his parents when they moved to Italy for the benefit of the 3rd Earl's health, and he succeeded his father as 4th Earl while still an infant, 15 February 1712/3.

He was married at the age of 13 with the consent of his mother but not that of his legal guardians, as a result of which his guardians brought legal proceedings and obtained an order under the Great Seal for him to be placed in their custody for his education. This no doubt explains why he was entered at New College, Oxford (matriculated 1724) at the exceptionally early age of thirteen.

It is not clear when he and his wife began married life together, but they seem to have shared artistic and musical interests, and were friends of Handel, who stayed several times at St. Giles House; the Countess was an accomplished amateur artist and was a friend of Mrs. Delany.

The Earl seems to have been a serious young man, who grew early into the responsibilities of his position: in 1732 he republished his father's Characteristics; in 1733 he was made a Trustee for the establishment of the colony of Georgia (USA). In 1735 he became Lord Lieutenant of Dorset; he was appointed Recorder of Shaftesbury, 1756; High Steward of Dorchester, 1757 and Major-General of the Dorset militia, 1761, and he was also a Governor of the Levant Company, 1766-71. In 1761 he was sworn of the Privy Council, and he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1754 and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1767.

He married 1st, 12 March 1724, Lady Susannah Noel (1711-58), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Gainsborough; and 2nd, 20 March 1759 at Roehampton (Surrey), the Hon. Mary Bouverie (1730-1804), daughter of Rt. Hon. Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, and had issue:
Anthony Ashley Cooper (1761-1811), 5th Earl of Shaftesbury (q.v.);
Lady Mary Anne Ashley Cooper (1766-1854), born 31 December 1766; married, 14 April 1788, Charles Sturt MP (1763-1812) of Crichel House (Dorset) and had issue one son (from whom descended the Barons Alington) and two daughters; died 8 July 1854;
Cropley Ashley Cooper (1768-1851), 6th Earl of Shaftesbury (q.v.).

He inherited the St. Giles House estate from his father in 1713 and came of age in 1732. He remodelled the house to the designs of Henry Flitcroft in 1740-44 and laid out a Rococo garden in the late 1740s.
He died 27 May 1771 and was buried at Wimborne St. Giles where he is commemorated by a monument designed by Thomas Scheemakers; his will was proved 8 June 1771. His first wife died without issue, 20 June 1758. His widow died 12 November 1804; her will was proved 6 February 1805.
SOURCE: http://landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/207-ashley-later-ashley-cooper-of_3.html


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