Earl Ferrers
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The title Earl Ferrers was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1711 for the 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. It is the senior Earldom in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Lord Ferrers holds the subsidiary title Viscount Tamworth, of Tamworth in the County of Stafford (1711), which is used as a courtesy title by Heirs Apparent to the Earldom. Lord Ferrers is also an English Baronet, styled "of Staunton Harold in the County of Leicester".
The 4th Earl is particularly notable as the last British peer to die a felon's death, in 1760, having murdered his steward.
The family seat is Ditchingham Hall in Norfolk.
[edit] Earls Ferrers (1711)
- Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (1650-1717)
- Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers (1677-1729)
- Henry Shirley, 3rd Earl Ferrers (1691-1745)
- Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (1720-1760)
- Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers (1722-1778)
- Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers (1723-1787)
- Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers (1756-1827)
- Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers (1760-1842)
- Washington Sewallis Shirley, 9th Earl Ferrers (1822-1859)
- Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers (1847-1912)
- Walter Knight Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers (1864-1937)
- Robert Walter Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers (1894-1954)
- Robert Washington Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers (b. 1929)
The Heir Apparent: Robert William Saswalo Shirley, Viscount Tamworth (b. 1952)
Lord Tamworth's Heir Apparent: The Hon. William Robert Charles Shirley (b. 1984)
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
