Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury called
Places:
- a town in the county of Dorset in England, see Shaftesbury (Dorset)
People:
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Earl of Shaftesbury is a nobility title of the English peerage . Well-known title holders were:
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683), English politician, grandfather of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), politician, philosopher and early Enlightenment writer
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801–1885), most famous philanthropist of the Victorian era
Others:
- Shaftesbury Avenue , a street in London
- Shaftesbury Theater , a theater in London
