Question: What Enlightenment thinker was The Lord Ashley a major supporter of?
Context: Carols in the City (also known as IGA Lord Mayor's Carols in the City), is an annual free Christmas concert event held at Riverstage in Brisbane, Australia.  It is broadcast around Queensland on the Nine Network since 1970s until 2010 and returned 2014, formerly on Network Ten in 2011 until 2013.  It is a major supporter of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, PC (22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683), known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1630, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1630 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.  A founder of the Whig party, he is also remembered as the patron of John Locke. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851 and then Lord Shaftesbury following the death of his father, was a British politician, philanthropist and social reformer.  He was the eldest son of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, and older brother of Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper. Hendrik Wyermars (early June 1685 – 27 September 1757) was a Dutch radical Enlightenment thinker from Amsterdam who in 1710 published a philosophical book defending the eternity of the world and rejecting the literal version of the Creation story from the book of Genesis.  For contradicting fundamental Christian doctrine the book was condemned by the local church authorities and the author subsequently jailed for 15 years in the Amsterdam Rasphuis.  He was considered an adherent of Spinozism, proclaiming atheist and materialist views. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt (22 May 1938 – c. 5 November 2004), styled Lord Ashley between 1947 and 1961, and Earl of Shaftesbury from 1961 until his death, was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England.  He was the son of Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, and Françoise Soulier. During the American Civil War, Indianapolis, the state capital of Indiana, was a major base of support for the Union.  Governor Oliver P. Morton, a major supporter of President Abraham Lincoln, quickly made Indianapolis a gathering place to organize and train troops for the Union army.  The city became a major railroad hub for troop transport to Confederate lands, and therefore had military importance.  Twenty-four military camps were established in the vicinity of Indianapolis.  Camp Morton, the initial mustering ground to organize and train the state's Union volunteers in 1861, was designated as a major prisoner-of-war camp for captured Confederate soldiers in 1862.  In addition to military camps, a state-owned arsenal was established in the city in 1861, and a federal arsenal in 1862.  A Soldiers' Home and a Ladies' Home were established in Indianapolis to house and feed Union soldiers and their families as they passed through the city.  Indianapolis residents also supported the Union cause by providing soldiers with food, clothing, equipment, and supplies, despite rising prices and wartime hardships, such as food and clothing shortages.  Local doctors aided the sick, some area women provided nursing care, and Indianapolis City Hospital tended to wounded soldiers.  Indianapolis sent an estimated 4,000 men into military service; an estimated 700 died during the war.  Indianapolis's Crown Hill National Cemetery was established as one of two national military cemeteries established in Indiana in 1866. John Locke {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".  Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory.  His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy.  His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries.  His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley (4 October 1900 – 8 March 1947), was a British army officer.  He was the eldest son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor.  His courtesy title "Lord Ashley", was used as the eldest son of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Walter Philip Reuther ( ; September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers (UAW) a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the mid 20th century.  He was a socialist in the early 1930s and worked closely with the Communist Party in the auto industry in the middle and late 1930s.  He was a leader in removing communists from the offices in UAW and CIO in the 1940s.  By 1949 he had become a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition, working to strengthen the labor union movement, raise wages, and give union leaders a greater voice in state and national Democratic party politics.  During the 1960s he was a major supporter of the civil rights movement. Eric Walten (1663–1697) was a Dutch Enlightenment thinker and pamphleteer, notably accused of blasphemy and of secretly following the philosophical thinking of Benedict Spinoza in the 1690s.
Answer: John Locke