Lord Shaftesbury
historical figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Lord Ashley · his Lordship
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Tory philanthropist and social reformer.
they were more adverse to measures of latent socialism than the Tory philanthropists, represented in literature by Southey, and in the world of practical benevolence by Lord Shaftesbury.
If any one deems this description of animosities which have passed away an exaggeration, let him compare the sort of anathema pronounced by Lord Shaftesbury on the men who came not to his aid in the war against oppression with Bright’s denunciation of the cant which, as he believed, had carried, and of the injustice which had been wrought by, the Ten Hours Act.
Lord Shaftesbury, however, was primarily neither a politician nor a theologian, but a religious humanitarian.