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Anthony Ashley-Cooper green plaque

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper green plaque
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This green commemorative plaque records: Near this spot Anthony Ashley-Cooper, afterwards 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG, while yet a boy in Harrow School, saw with shame and indignation the pauper's funeral, which helped to awaken his lifelong devotion to the service of the poor and oppressed. "Blessed is he that considereth the poor" Recorded plaque organisation: Harrow School.

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