Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury,( born 3 June 1979) also known as Nick Ashley- Cooper, is an English peer, landowner and philanthropist.
He succeeded his brother as Earl of Shaftesbury in 2005.
The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury is the godson of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Simon Elliot, brother- in- law of Charles, Prince of Wales.
Shaftesbury's father, Anthony Ashley- Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, had been murdered in November 2004 by the brother of his third wife, Jamila M'Barek.
Six months later, on 15 May 2005, the 12th earl's brother, Anthony, the 11th Earl, died of a heart attack and the peerage devolved upon Nicholas.
Following his brother's death, Shaftesbury relocated to his family home from New York City and assumed the responsibilities of the earldom.
He also holds the subsidiary titles Baron Ashley and Baron Cooper.
On 11 September 2010, Lord Shaftesbury married Dinah Streifeneder.
Professionally, the Countess of Shaftesbury is a veterinary surgeon.
Since inheriting the titles and estate, they have pursued the restoration of St Giles House.
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, 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.
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.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt DL (27 June 1831 – 13 April 1886), styled Lord Ashley between 1851 and 1885, was a British peer.
Ashley was the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
He was commissioned a cornet in the Dorsetshire Yeomanry on 26 July 1856 and was promoted lieutenant on 21 January 1857.
On 27 January 1857, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Dorset.
He resigned his Yeomanry commission in April 1859.
He was Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull from 1857 to 1859 and Cricklade from 1859 to 1865.
He was a patron and member of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.
On 7 June 1858, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Antrim Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia.
On 16 March 1860, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
He resigned his commission in the South Middlesex on 6 September 1860 to become a captain in the London Irish Volunteer Corps on 17 September.
On 7 September 1860, he was promoted to a captaincy in the Antrim Militia, which he resigned in early 1862.
He resigned his commission in the London Irish Volunteer Corps on 1 April 1863.
On 6 February 1862, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Dorsetshire Regiment of Militia, a position he held until 1 June 1872.
On 12 May 1875, he was appointed lieutenant-commanding of the London Corps of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, and on 7 June 1880, he became honorary commander of the London Brigade, RNAV.
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.

Question: When was Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8Th Earl Of Shaftesbury's father born?
Answer: 28 April 1801