Evelyn Ashley

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Evelyn Ashley, caricature by Leslie Ward

Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley (born July 24, 1836 in London , † November 15, 1907 in the country house Broadlands near Romsey , Hampshire ) was a British writer and politician .

Origin and life

Ashley, the younger son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , and brother of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury , attended school at Harrow and studied at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he graduated in 1858. In 1863 he became trustee in London and from 1863 to 1874 he served as treasurer of the Dorset County Courts .

In 1874 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament for the Isle of Wight , but was elected for Poole in May of that year and had been a member of the House of Commons for Wight since 1880. He joined the Liberal Party , became Parliamentary State Secretary of the Board of Trade in April 1880 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office in May 1882 . In 1891 he was appointed Privy Councilor .

He had a close relationship with the long-time Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and was for a time his private secretary. In the mid-19th century, Palmerston sold him his country estate Broadlands near Romsey near Southampton . As a writer, Ashley published a fundamental biography of Palmerston ( Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston , London 1876, 2 vols.).

Family and offspring

Ashley married Sybella Farquhar in 1866. After her death in 1886 he married Lady Alice Cole, daughter of William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen . His son Wilfrid (1867-1939) came from his first marriage , who was a member of the British government as Minister of Transport from 1924 to 1929 and was raised to the nobility in 1932 as Baron Mount Temple . Lord Mount Temple married Amalia Mary Maud Cassel, a daughter of the banker Sir Ernest Cassel , in 1901 and had daughters Edwina and Ruth with her .

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SURNAME Ashley, Evelyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashley, Anthony Evelyn Melbourne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1907
Place of death Broadlands Country House at Romsey , Hampshire