5914730 Anthony Ashley Cooper. 1st Earl of Shaftesbury in Lord Chancellor\'s robes, c.1672 (oil on canvas) by Greenhill, John (1642/9-76) (attr. to); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-83) English politician during the Interregnum and one of 12 delegation to the Dutch Republic inviting King Charles II to return (made him the Lord Ashley). Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1661??2. Part of Cabal Ministry or \'the cabal\', serving as Lord Chancellor 1672??3 ??he was created Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672. A founder of the Whig party).