Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet
Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet( died 23 March 1630), was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.
He was father of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.
Jamila M'Barek
Jamila Ashley- Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury( née M' Barek), is the French- born Tunisian widow of Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, and is imprisoned for having been an accomplice to the murder of her husband by her brother.
Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury
Cropley Ashley- Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt( 21 December 1768 – 2 June 1851), styled The Honourable Cropley Ashley- Cooper until 1811, was a British politician.
He was the father of the social reformer Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
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.
Ashley- Cooper was the grandson of Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Ashley- Cooper's father was the heir apparent to the earldom and its subsidiary titles, but he predeceased his father.
His death made his son next in the line of succession.
When his grandfather died in 1961, Ashley- Cooper became the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and Baron Cooper of Pawlett.
The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury was a wealthy landowner of over in East Dorset, and received honours and awards for his philanthropic and conservationist work, which included planting over a million trees in South West England.
He served as president of the Shaftesbury Society, pursuing the same goals of his second great grandfather, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, who had founded the organization as Ragged Schools in 1840.
He also served as the vice president of Sir David Attenborough's British Butterfly Conservation Society.
In November 2004, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury went missing while in France, prompting an international police investigation.
His remains were found at the bottom of a remote ravine in the foothills of the French Alps five months after his death.
Investigations revealed that he was murdered by his brother- in- law during an argument regarding a divorce from his wife, Jamila M' Barek, both of whom were convicted of his murder.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (31 August 1869 – 25 March 1961), was the son of the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Harriet Augusta
Anna Seymourina Chichester (1836 – 14 April 1898), the daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall and Lady Harriet Anne Butler.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury( 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 Henry Ashley, MP.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Nils Christian Ashley- Cooper, 11th Earl of Shaftesbury( 24 June 1977 – 15 May 2005) was the elder son of Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury by his second marriage to the Swedish- born Christina Eva Montan.
He became the 11th Earl of Shaftesbury( retroactively) in 2004, as a result of the discovery of his father's body in 2005 at the bottom of a ravine in Theoule- sur- Mer, on the outskirts of Cannes in the south of France.
The 10th Earl went missing in November 2004 and his body was discovered in early 2005.
The then Lord Ashley technically inherited the earldom immediately upon the death of his father, who was murdered by the brother of his third wife Jamila M'Barek.
However, as his father was only believed to be missing, the inheritance was actually not confirmed until his body was found.
Unlike his father, who pursued the hedonistic lifestyle of an international playboy, the 11th Earl appears to have led a far more sedate and ordinary existence, living quietly at his flat at Earl's Court in London where he was employed as an accountant.
He was reportedly looking forward to getting to grips with the task of managing the family's estates at Wimborne St Giles in Dorset after enjoying a short holiday in the United States where he was visiting his younger brother Nicholas, who worked as a disc jockey in New York City.
It was during this holiday that the 11th Earl suddenly died after an apparent heart attack on a Sunday some six weeks after assuming the title.
Lord Shaftesbury was 27 years old.
The family issued a statement through Sussex Police which said that; The office of the chief medical officer in New York confirmed that Lord Shaftesbury had died at St Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, adding that the cause of death was still under investigation;" It's still being studied.
We are still doing tests, it will be at least another week before we can confirm anything."
Prior to his inheritance, he was known as Lord Ashley.
He also held the subsidiary titles Baron Ashley and Baron Cooper.
He was educated at Marlborough College and the University of Bristol where he obtained a BSc degree.
The late Earl's younger brother Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley- Cooper succeeded as the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury Bt (16 January 1652 – 2 November 1699), known as Lord Ashley from 1672 to 1683, was an English peer and Member of Parliament.
Shaftesbury was the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lady Frances Cecil.
He was elected to the House of Commons for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1673, a seat he held until 1679.
In 1683 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.
Lord Shaftesbury married Lady Dorothy Manners, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, in 1669.
He died in November 1699, aged 47, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Anthony, who became a noted philosopher and writer.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley
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.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury DL FRS( 17 September 1761 – 14 May 1811) was a British peer.
Ashley- Cooper was the son of Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury and Mary Pleydell- Bouverie.
He was educated at Winchester and served as Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785.
Lord Shaftesbury married Barbara Webb, daughter of Sir John Webb, 5th Baronet and Mary Salvain, of Odstock House, Wiltshire, on 17 July 1786.
His only child, a daughter, was Lady Barbara Ashley- Cooper( 19 October 1788 – 5 June 1844), who married the Baron de Mauley.
Lord Shaftesbury died on 14 May 1811 at age 49 and was buried at St Giles Parish in Wimborne St Giles in Dorset.
On his death, having no male heir, the title passed to his younger brother, the Honourable Cropley Ashley- Cooper.

Question: What is the date of death of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley's father?
Answer: 25 March 1961