Family and Education
b. 26 Feb. 1671, 1st s. of Ashley Cooper, Ld. Ashley (later 2nd earl of Shaftesbury) and Lady Dorothy Manners; bro. of Hon. Maurice Ashley‡. educ. privately (Elizabeth Birch) 1675–9; Clapham sch. 1680; Winchester 1683–6; travelled abroad (France, Low Countries, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland) 1686–9. m. 29 Aug. 1709 (with £3,000) Jane (d.1751), da. of Thomas Ewer, of Bushey Hall and the Leas, Watford, Herts. 1s. d. 4 Feb. 1713; will 10 Nov. 1710, pr. 31 Mar.–1 July 1713. TNA, PROB 11/532.
Offices Held
V.-adm. Dorset 28 June 1701 – 11 June 1702.
Freeman, merchant adventurers 1689.
Associated with: Wimborne St Giles, Dorset; Chelsea, Mdx.;London Top. Rec. xxix. 53-57; Add. 22267, ff. 164-71.; Reigate, Surr.TNA, PRO 30/24/22/6.;
ASHLEY COOPER
Likenesses
double portrait (with Maurice Ashley), oil on canvas by J. Closterman, 1700–1, NPG 5308; mezzotint, F. Kyte aft. unknown, NPG D4190; oil on canvas, British school, Shaftesbury Town Hall.
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Lords 1660-1715
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Oxford 1644
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