USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (July 22, 1621-January 21, 1683), was the most versatile and brilliant of the original eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury, lived from 1671 to 1713. He was one of the most important philosophers of his day, and exerted an enormous influence on European thought throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -King Charles II granted the country to his brother, the Duke of York, who in turn sold the colony to two of his friends, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret (who were both already Lords Proprietors of Carolina).

Detailed explanation-4: -With the aid of John Locke, who was a member of his household and secretary to the proprietorship, Lord Ashley wrote the Fundamental Constitutions for the colony and oversaw arrangements for the expedition that brought the first permanent English settlers to South Carolina.