Locke coordinated the advice of several physicians and was probably instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an operation ( then life-threatening itself ) to remove the cyst.

Locke became involved in politics when Shaftesbury became Lord Chancellor in 1672.

Thus in a short time Charles's own cabinet, the Cabal Ministry, went over to the " Dutch " peace party ; Lord Shaftesbury, much shocked by the revelation, even beginning to consider driving out the troublesome House of Stuart entirely and inducing his secretary, John Locke, to further develop the legal concepts which would later be the basis of the Two Treatises of Government, which justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

In November 1684, at the command of King Charles II, Fell deprived John Locke, who had incurred the royal displeasure by his friendship with Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and was suspected as the author of certain seditious pamphlets, of his studentship at Christ Church, summarily and without hearing his defence.

Shaftesbury supported the Test Act, and, alongside James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, received the sacrament at St Clement Danes, with John Locke serving as the legal witness for each man's conformity with the Test Act.

Shaftesbury and his secretary John Locke, devised an intricate plan to govern the many people arriving in the colony.

Shaftesbury, with the assistance of his secretary, the philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, a plan for government of the colony heavily influenced by the ideas of the English political scientist, James Harrington.

* some letters to Benjamin Furly, his sons, and his clerk Harry Wilkinson, included, in a volume entitled Original Letters of Locke, Sidney and Shaftesbury, which was published by T. Forster in 1830, and again in an enlarged form in 1847 ;

From these results we see that Shaftesbury, opposed to Hobbes and Locke, is in close agreement with Hutcheson, and that he is ultimately a deeply religious thinker, inasmuch as he discards the moral sanction of public opinion, the terrors of future punishment, and the authority of the civil authority as the main incentives to goodness, and substitutes the voice of conscience and the love of God.

Locke, Shaftesbury and many others were forced into exile ; some, such as Sidney, were even executed for treason.

At that time, thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Shaftesbury, and Smith created the intellectual foundation upon which modern business and capitalism was built.

The Fundamental Constitutions are usually attributed to John Locke, in collaboration with his patron Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, a leading Lord Proprietor with a long-standing interest in colonial affairs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, like Shaftesbury, also insisted that man was born with the potential for goodness ; and he, too, argued that civilization, with its envy and self-consciousness, has made men bad.

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

Charing Cross Road was developed, in conjunction with Shaftesbury Avenue, by the Metropolitan Board of Works under an 1877 Act of Parliament at a cost of £ 778, 238.

His body was reburied with great ceremony at Shaftesbury Abbey early in 980.

The body was taken to the Shaftesbury Abbey, a nunnery with royal connections which had been endowed by King Alfred the Great and where Edward and Æthelred's grandmother Ælfgifu had spent her latter years.

King Æthelred, preoccupied with the threat of a Danish invasion, did not attend in person, but he issued a charter to the Shaftesbury nuns late in 1001 granting them lands at Bradford on Avon, which is thought to be related.

In The Guardian dated 6 September 2008, Bunny May, a contributor to the letters page, claims that he ( along with John Junkin and David Clime ) invented the game in 1970, in an actors ' club off Shaftesbury Avenue called " Gerry's " ( which was run at the time by Gerald Campion ), in order to infuriate and bemuse patrons whom they found boring or boorish.

It returned to the West End in July 2011 for a 10-week run at the Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, with Williams and McCabe reprising their roles.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Rupert allied himself with Lord Shaftesbury on matters of foreign policy, but remained loyal to King Charles II on other issues, and was passionate about protecting the Royal Prerogative.

His standpoint has a negative and a positive aspect ; he is in strong opposition to Thomas Hobbes and Mandeville, and in fundamental agreement with Shaftesbury, whose name he very properly coupled with his own on the title page of the first two essays.

The term " moral sense " ( which, it may be noticed, had already been employed by Shaftesbury, not only, as William Whewell suggests, in the margin, but also in the text of his Inquiry ), if invariably coupled with the term " moral judgement ," would be open to little objection ; but, taken alone, as designating the complex process of moral approbation, it is liable to lead not only to serious misapprehension but to grave practical errors.

The test or criterion of right action is with Hutcheson, as with Shaftesbury, its tendency to promote the general welfare of mankind.

To a study of the writings of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson we might, probably, in large measure, attribute the unequivocal adoption of the utilitarian standard by Hume, and, if this be the case, the name of Hutcheson connects itself, through Hume, with the names of Priestley, Paley and Bentham.

Thus, the analogy between beauty and virtue, which was so favourite a topic with Shaftesbury, is prominent in the writings of Hutcheson also.

We thus see that, not only directly but also through the replies that it called forth, the system of Hutcheson, or at least the system of Hutcheson combined with that of Shaftesbury, contributed, in large measure, to the formation and development of some of the most important of the modern schools of ethics.

He joined the Dutch party, and in order to make his peace with his new allies, disclosed the secret treaty of Dover to the staunch Protestants Ormonde and Shaftesbury.

Holles, who was honourably distinguished by Charles as a " stiff and sullen man ," and as one who would not yield to solicitation ; now became with Halifax and Shaftesbury a leader in the resistance to the domestic and foreign policy of the court.

In the 2000s Willcox had a busy schedule with theatre commitments, including appearing on stage in London's West End performing the title role of Calamity Jane ( nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Best Musical ) at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2003.

On February 20, 981 the relics of St Edward the Martyr were transferred from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony, thereafter turning Shaftesbury into a major site of pilgrimage for miracles of healing.

Shaftesbury took a small role with the civil war between Queen Matilda and King Stephen, in which a small castle was built on Castle Hill.

Like his contemporaries ( all of whom who were educated by reading classical authors such as Livy, Cicero, and Horace ), Shaftesbury admired the simplicity of life of classical antiquity.

Encouraged by the support of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and the 1st Earl Cairns, he gave up his early ambition to lead a missionary's life in China, and began what was to prove his life ’ s work.

Towards the end of his life he opposed the more extreme Protestant groups, led by Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who refused to accept the succession of James because he was a self-declared Catholic.

Brand introduced and spoke at the celebration of Michael Foot's life at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 8 November 2010.

After the first few weeks of Anne's reign, Shaftesbury, who had been deprived of the vice-admiralty of Dorset, returned to his retired life, but his letters to Furly show that he retained a keen interest in politics.

The match appears to have been happy, though Shaftesbury had little sentiment on the subject of married life.

As an earnest student, and ardent lover of liberty, an enthusiast in the cause of virtue, and a man of unblemished life and untiring beneficence, Shaftesbury probably had no superior in his generation.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

For Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just is the sensory version of moral goodness.

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

The influential author Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury is also usually categorized as a deist.

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

* 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

* 1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( b. 1671 )

* 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( d. 1683 )

In 1666, he met Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection.

Shaftesbury, as a founder of the Whig movement, exerted great influence on Locke's political ideas.

In London he also starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye ’ s novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

From October 2007 to January 2008, he played the role of Wilbur Turnblad in the London production of Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

" The eighteenth-century philosophers Shaftesbury and Hutcheson " were obviously inspired in part by Cumberland.

Noting its significance, Lord Shaftesbury said, " It is a new thing and a very serious thing to see the Prime Minister on the stump.

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

* 1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1, 998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

Xenophon's standing as a political philosopher has been defended in recent times by Leo Strauss, who devoted a considerable part of his philosophic analysis to the works of Xenophon, returning to the high judgment of Xenophon as a thinker expressed by Shaftesbury, Winckelmann, Machiavelli, and John Adams.

* The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury is observed in a reenactment.

* July 22 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician ( d. 1683 )

* February 26 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )