Book Description
A three-volume biography of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, the great philanthropist, first published in 1886.
Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108075541
A three-volume biography of the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, the great philanthropist, first published in 1886.
Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Richard Turnbull
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0745957315
The best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury's deep compassion for the poor became legendary. He campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop the use of boys as chimney sweeps and children in coalmines, and to develop universal education. As a result he changed the character of English society forever. Areas covered in this important new biography include his upbringing and education; his work as a politician and his campaign for mental health; factory and industrial reforms; campaigns for climbing boys and for better sanitation and housing; his contribution towards the founding of the Bible Society, CPAS, London City Mission, Ragged School Union and CMS; his role as a defender of the Protestant faith and the campaign against ritualism; his personal theology.
Author : David Furse-Roberts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532654294
As one of Victorian Britain’s pre-eminent social reformers, Lord Shaftesbury (1801–85) exerted a lasting impact surpassing all of his parliamentary contemporaries. Despite being born into one of England’s aristocratic families, a combination of early childhood deprivation, an earnest Evangelical faith, and an abiding sense of noblesse oblige made him a champion of the poor. His seminal contribution to the Victorian factory reform movement represented just one of his manifold legacies. This contextual study of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury probes the mind behind the man to evaluate the religious and philosophical ideas, and their leading figures, that ignited his lifelong activism in the public sphere. This book reveals that far from representing a relic of the Victorian age, the Earl of Shaftesbury, whilst a conservative by predilection, was essentially a forward-looking and farsighted reformer. The principles that Shaftesbury espoused of industrial justice, class harmony, subsidiarity, volunteerism, selfless individualism, religious observance, strong families and private enterprise tempered by moderate state intervention are essentially those prized by liberal democracies today as the foundation for social cohesion, prosperity, and human flourishing.
Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Pollock
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 850 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Edwin Hodder
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1886
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