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Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres above sea level on a greensand hill on the edge of Cranborne Chase.
Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. At the time it was the second-wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only Syon Abbey.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and the reign of King Charles II. A founder of the Whig party, he was also the patron of John Locke.
Earl of Shaftesbury is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1672 for Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley, a prominent politician in the Cabal then dominating the policies of King Charles II. He had already succeeded his father as second Baronet of Rockbourne in 1631 and been created Baron Ashley, of Wimborne St Giles in the County of Dorset, in 1661, and he was made Baron Cooper, of Paulett in the County of Somerset, at the same time he was given the earldom.
Shaftesbury was a parliamentary constituency in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 until 1832 and one member until the constituency was abolished in 1885.
James Baker was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
Henry Whitaker was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.
Edward Leante, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
The following were mayors of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England:
Richard Payn, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
Thomas Cammell, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
Thomas Seward, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament and merchant.
Hugh Croxhale, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament, mayor and cloth merchant.
Roger Pyjon was an English Member of Parliament.
Robert Fovent, alias Osegood, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
John Whiting of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer.
Walter Biere, of Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
Thomas Haselmere of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament.
William Grove, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, and Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire, was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer.
John Gapputh or Gapper or Gapworth, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament and businessman.
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