Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyKG (28 April 1801 – 1 Oktober 1885),[1] yang disebut Lord Ashley dari 1811 sampai 1851 dan kemudian Lord Shaftesbury setelah Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury dan istrinya Lady Anne Spencer, putri dari George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, dan kakak dari Anthony Henry Ashley-Cooper.
G. B. A. M. Finlayson, The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1981).
J. L. Hammond and B. Hammond, Lord Shaftesbury (1923).
E. Hodder, The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, 3 vols. (1887). Volume 1; Volume2; Volume3
Lewis, Donald (2010). The Origins of Christian Zionism: Lord Shaftesbury And Evangelical Support For A Jewish Homeland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. hlm. 380. ISBN9781107631960.
John Debrett The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland vol. 1: "Cropley Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury", p. 143. Reprinted 2002 from the original edition circa 1810. The entry gives details of Shaftesbury's four brothers and three surviving sisters. Further details of their marriages and descendance are available here.