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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (1938–2004), was a British peer from Wimborne St Giles, Dorset. His father predeceased him, making him next in line to his grandfather, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury. When the 9th Earl died in 1961, Ashley-Cooper became the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and Baron Cooper of Pawlett. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he was a wealthy landowner of over 9,000 acres (3,600 ha) in East Dorset, and received honours and awards for his philanthropic and conservationist work, which included planting over a million trees. He served as president of the Shaftesbury Society, pursuing the same goals of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, who had founded the organization in 1840. He also served as the vice president of Sir David Attenborough's British Butterfly Conservation Society. In November 2004, he went missing in France, prompting an international police investigation. His remains were found at the bottom of a remote ravine in the foothills of the French Alps. His brother-in-law and his wife, Jamila M'Barek, were convicted of his murder. (Full article...)