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Born January 21, 1840 • Hastings • England
Died January 7, 1912 (aged 71) • England
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1862; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Sir Hugh Allen, drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1925; in the British Museum
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Alexander Monro, tertius
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Winston Churchill
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