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.

Shaftesbury took no part in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.

He took an active part in the controversy over the Exclusion Bill, and claimed to be the author of the whole of the pamphlet " No Protestant Plot " ( 1681 ), parts of which are usually ascribed to Shaftesbury.

In the early 1990s he settled in London, and took roles in Dogboy, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo, Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist, and Wilson Milam's 1997 production of Hurlyburly at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Rupert Graves and David Tennant.

The interest which Shaftesbury took in his studies, and the desire that he should be specially fitted for the profession which he had selected, that of a clergyman of the Church of England, are marked features of the letters.

Shaftesbury began to agitate against Charles and his brother, the Duke of York, later James II ; he briefly returned to government in the Privy Council Ministry and took a lead in forming the partisan group that would eventually become known as the Whigs.

A number of military events took place in Dorset during The Anarchy of the 12th century, and this gave rise to the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury.

Also during 2010, on 18 April, Mackenzie took part in the fund raising event We Are One, a celebration of tribal peoples, in aid of indigenous rights organisation Survival International, at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

" On 16 June, he accompanied Shaftesbury when the latter indicted James at Westminster as a popish recusant ; and on 26 October, he took the extreme step of moving to suppress popery and prevent a popish successor ; while on 2 November, now at the height of his influence, he went still further by seconding the motion for exclusion in its most emphatic shape, and on the 19th carried the exclusion bill to the House of Lords.

Brian appeared as part of Team Ant on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, and took over from Michael Ball in the musical Hairspray playing the role of Edna Turnblad at London's Shaftesbury Theatre.

The Earl of Shaftesbury and other worthies therefore took it upon themselves to set up a charity to construct and run shelters at major cab stands.

On 24 February 2011 they took part in an event called Comedy Rush ( hosted by comedian Rufus Hound ) at London's Shaftesbury Theatre.

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

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

He, however, separated himself from the Whigs on the exclusion question, probably on account of his dislike of the Duke of Monmouth and the Earl of Shaftesbury, was absent from the great debate in the Lords on 15 November 1680, and was restored to the king's favour in 1684.

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.

This occurred in a great procession beginning on February 13, 981 ; the relics arrived at Shaftesbury seven days later.

Shaftesbury was now gaining a great reputation amongst the common people as a Protestant hero.

The announcement prompted great celebrations in London, with crowds yelling " No Popish Successor, No York, A Monmouth " and " God bless the Earl of Shaftesbury ".

The estate at Wimborne St Giles came into the ownership of the Ashley family around the year 1460, through the marriage of Egidia Hamelyn and Robert Ashley, the 5th great grandfather of the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.

Under such conditions, it was unlikely that Waller's hopes of a great battle at Shaftesbury would be realised.

In 1892-1893 Gilbert was occupied with the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, in Piccadilly Circus, London, a work of great originality and beauty representing Anteros, yet shorn of some of the intended effect through restrictions put upon the artist.

Proposing a new British style of architecture, Shaftesbury censured Wren's cathedral, his taste and his long-standing control of royal works.

* Shaftesbury Park Estate, conservation area consisting of over a thousand Victorian houses preserved in their original style.

Shaftesbury's son, Lord Ashley, succeeded him as Earl of Shaftesbury.

The first Earl was succeeded by his son, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury.

His son, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury upon his death.

After an absence of over twelve months, Ashley returned to England, and soon succeeded his father as Earl of Shaftesbury.

His only son, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, succeeded him in his titles and republished Characteristics in 1732.

And so in many of the major areas of humanitarian reform, Christians and rationalists worked together: in the case of slavery ; William Wilberforce, the Buxtons but also Jeremy Bentham and Condorcet ; in the case of working conditions ; evangelicals such as Lord Shaftesbury but also Robert Owen and Edwin Chadwick ; in the case of punishments Beccaria but also Samuel Romilly ; in the case of the mentally ill ; Shaftesbury and Pinel and in the case of the treatment of animals, Bentham enlisted the aid of Wilberforce.

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

The philanthropist, politician and evangelist Lord Shaftesbury even went so far as to describe Booth as the " Anti-Christ ".

Shaftesbury refused this offer, saying he could never support " an interest that was so apparently destructive to religion and trade.

Shaftesbury's actions in the 1674 session further angered Charles II, so on 19 May 1674, Shaftesbury was expelled from the privy council, and subsequently sacked as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and ordered to leave London.

Shaftesbury led the parliamentary opposition to Danby's Test Bill, arguing that, under certain circumstances, it was lawful to resist the king's ministers, and that, as in the case of the Protestant Reformation, it was sometimes necessary to alter the church so as to restore it.

On 9 November 1678, Charles promised that he would sign any bill that would make them safe during the reign of his successor, so long as they did not impeach the right of his successor ; this speech was widely misreported as Charles ' having agreed to name the Duke of Monmouth as his successor, leading to celebratory bonfires throughout London, with crowds drinking the health of " the King, the Duke of Monmouth, and Earl of Shaftesbury, as the only three pillars of all safety.

Shaftesbury worried that the king might be intending to not meet this new parliament, so he launched a massive petitioning campaign to pressure the king to meet parliament.

Shaftesbury now urged his friends on the privy council to resign and four did so.

He immediately petitioned the Old Bailey on a writ of habeas corpus, but the Old Bailey said it did not have jurisdiction over prisoners in the Tower of London, so Shaftesbury had to wait for the next session of the Court of King's Bench.

However the grand jury of Middlesex threw out the bill against Lord Shaftesbury, and were vehemently attacked for so doing by government supporters.

Hugh McNeile was in close sympathy with the philanthropic work as well as the religious views of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who tried hard to persuade Lord Palmerston to make him a bishop ; but although Palmerston usually followed the advice of Shaftesbury in the appointment of bishops, he would not consent to the elevation to the House of Lords of so powerful a political opponent as McNeile, whom Lord John Russell had accused of frustrating the education policy of the Liberal Party for thirty years.

Scroggs continued in his poor treatment of Catholic priests who came before him for trial, as he showed when he sentenced Andrew Bromwich to death at Stafford in the summer of 1679, however his proposing the Duke of York's health at the Lord Mayor's dinner a few months later in the presence of Shaftesbury indicated his determination not to support the Exclusionists against the known wishes of the king. At the opening of the Michaelmas Term he delivered a speech on the need for judicial independence: " the people ought to be pleased with public justice and not justice seek to please the people .... neither for my part do I think we live in so corrupted an age that no man can with safety be just and follow his own conscience.

However, an operation damaged her vocal cords, and so she switched from musicals to plays, beginning with the role of Louise Allington in the farce Tons of Money, which ran for nearly two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 1922.

He directed the production of a vast work on Social England in 1893-1898 ; he wrote, for several series of biographies, studies of Coleridge ( 1884 ), Sterne ( 1882 ), William III ( 1888 ), Shaftesbury ( 1886 ), Strafford ( 1889 ), and Lord Salisbury ( 1891 ); he compiled a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer ( 1896 ); and after a visit to Egypt he published a volume on the country, and in 1897 appeared his book on Lord Cromer, the man who had done so much to bring it back to prosperity.