
K.H.D. Haley
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LOCATION: Sheffield S11 9SA, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, England. Author of The First Earl of Shaftesbury.
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury was an English politician, a member of the Council of State (1653–54; 1659) during the Commonwealth, and a member of Charles II’s “Cabinet Council” and lord chancellor (1672–73). Seeking to exclude the Roman Catholic duke of York (the future James II)…
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