Cain and Abel: Two Aristocrats and the Early Victorian Factory Acts*

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-5103|27|1|83-109

ISSN: 0018-246x

Source: The Historical Journal, Vol.27, Iss.1, 1984-03, pp. : 83-109

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Abstract

In November 1844 the young Lord Ashley, not for 16 years to become the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, was in search of a public school for his son and heir, Anthony. ‘I fear Eton,’ he confided to his diary: