Following the deaths of his father and older brother, Nick Ashley-Cooper, now the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, returned to England to renovate St. Giles House on the family's 5,000-acre estate.

Near the west door of Westminster Abbey is a statue to politician and philanthropist Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was unveiled on 1st October 1888 and is by the sculptor Sir ...