Ideologies / Civic Conservative / Lord Shaftesbury
§ The minds · 1801–1885 · United Kingdom · Reformer & peer
Lord Shaftesbury
Tory social reform
Order with a conscience.
Economic+22
SocialistMarket
Governance+44
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
TraditionalProgressive
The evangelical aristocrat whose factory and mines reforms softened industrial capitalism from within the conservative establishment — paternalist civic conservatism in action.
social
Evangelical traditionalist driven by Christian duty.
economic
Accepted industrial capitalism but curbed its cruelties by law.
governance
An aristocratic reformer working through the established order.
Notable for
- Factory Acts reform
- Banned child labour in mines
- Evangelical philanthropy
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