Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist mb-height 7048 A scene taken from the

A scene taken from the three-part mock-heroic satire Sir Hudibras by Samuel Butler

not for peace

Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three witches on the heath

He succeeded his brother

To the right is Disraeli

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist mb-height 7048 A scene taken from theAnthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philanthropist, c1890. Lord Shaftesbury (1801 1885) piloted a number of reforming acts through Parliament including the factory acts of 1847, 1850 and 1859 resulting in a 10 hour working day, and the Coal Mines Act of 1842 which outlawed the employment of women and of children under 13 underground. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London,