DEATH OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2066, 3 October 1885, Page 3

DEATH OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.

London, October 1. The death is announced, at the ago of 84, of the K.ul of Sluftesbury. The follow ing brief bingrnphiL.il notice is taken from " Men of the lime ' . - Shaftesbury (E.irl of), K.G , The Right H^r. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, bom m iMfon, Ajhil 28, 1801, whs educated at ChrU Church, Oxford, wheie he obtained a first class in Cla*sici, in 1822, friadiMted iM.A. in 1832, and was created D.C L. in g*N4l. Ho was returned, .is Lord Ashley, Ijuember for Woodstock, in 182<i, and sup Ifforted the (}«nernmenti of Liverpool and Canning, and in the administration of the Duke of Wellington ««■* ;i Co>ninisMoner of ifte Board of Control. He was letuined for JWchenter in 1830, and for Doiset*hire in 1831, which county he represented till i'eb., 184b". He was elected one of the membeis for Bath in August, 1847, and sat for that borough till ho succeeded his fnthei in the peerage, in 1811. He was ,i Lord of the Admiralty in tho Lite Sir K. Peel's admmiutration in 1831-5 ; and, on tho iemov.il from the Hout3 of Commons of the Lite Mr Sadler, took chaige of the Ton Hours Bill. When Sir H. Feel again took office in 1841, Lord Ashley was invited to join tho adininistr.itioti, but refused upon finding that the I'remier'n views would not poinnt him to support the Ten Hours J till. In public life his loidship hsu always acted with preit independence. The chief object foi which he has laboured, in and out of l'.uliairent, has been the impiovement of the social condition of the labouring classes ; no man having taken more pains to inform himself of the actual condition of the 111.1^ of the people in England, and to endeavour to nmplioMto their condition. His influence iflke Kvangelic.il l>.irty within the Church oWKngland is considerable. H»> is I'iim'dent of the Bible Society, the Pastoral Aid Society, and the Society foi the Conversion of the Jew h, and was formerly Piosident of tho Protestant Alliance ; i-> a prominent irumitici <>f all thoso religious societies which are founded on ,\n "ev.uigehc.il " b.i-i-, and is an active ad » oca to of the abolition of slavery throughout the wtnld.