Lineage of the Earl Ferrers Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk
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		21(iii). Robert Walter Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers, of Staunton Harold Hall born at 11 Cottesmore Gardens, Kensington, London, on Saturday, 7 July 1894, bapt. at St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, He died on 11 October 1954 at age 60. Inherited the Earldom upon the death of his father Walter Knight Shirley who died in 1937. married: Hermione Justice, daughter of A. Noel Morley children: 22(i). Robert Washington Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, of Ditchingham Hall born 8 June 1929, died 13 Nov 2012. Inherited the Earldom upon the death of his father Robert Shirley who died in 1954. The Earl Ferrers died 13 November 2012; His obituary - The Telegraph (more Information) British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. He is one of the few people to serve in the governments of five different Prime Ministers. Lord Ferrers was the eldest child and only son of Robert Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers and succeeded to become 13th Earl Ferrers in 1954 on the death of his father, and consequently was allowed to sit in the House of Lords. He served as a House of Lords whip from 1962 until 1964 under both Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home. When the Conservatives were returned to power under Edward Heath, he once again served as a House of Lords whip from 1971 to 1974, then serving as a Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the beginning of 1974. When the Conservatives were returned to power under Margaret Thatcher in 1979, Lord Ferrers returned to MAFF, this time as a Minister of State. He left office in 1983, and returned to the backbenches in the Lords. In 1988 he returned to government service as a Minister of State at the Home Office, and in 1994 moved to the Department of Trade and Industry, where he remained until 1995, when he became Minister for the Environment at the Department of the Environment. Between 1979 and 1983, and again between 1988 and 1997, he served as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords. With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Ferrers along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was, however, elected as one of the 90 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1982. The family country seat is in Ditchingham, south Norfolk. Earl Ferrers is a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and Grand Prior (since 2007) of the Constitutional Grand Priory of England and Wales of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. source: Wikipedia married Annabel Mary Carr, daughter of Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, on 21 July 1951 children: 23(i). Robert William Saswalo Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers, of Ditchingham Hall born 29 December 1952; Educated at Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England; He was a chartered accountant. He lived at one time at The Old Vicarage, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire; He succeeded as the 14th Viscount Tamworth in 2012. He succeeded as the 20th Baronet Shirley, of Staunton Harold and as the 14th Earl Ferrers on 13 November 2012; married Susannah Mary Sheepshanks, daughter of Charles Edward William Sheepshanks and Mary Scholefield Nickson, on 21 June 1980 children: 24(i). Lady Hermione Mary Annabel Shirley born 11 December 1982; She married Edward J. Crisp, son of Major Simon Crisp and Christine Gräfin Grote-Varchentin 24(ii). Hon. William Robert Charles Shirley, Viscount Tamworth born 10 December 1984; Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford married Camilla Lutyens, daughter of Richard David Lutyens and Mary Anne Julie Phyllis Drabble, in 2000 children: 25(i). Hon. Francesca Alice Hermione Shirley born 7 June 2016 25(ii). Hon. Amelie Mary Tanya Shirley born 11 December 2018 24(iii). Hon. Frederick James Walter Shirley born 1990; Educated at Stowe and Oxford Brookes University 23(ii). Lady Angela Mary Shirley born 16 June 1954; She married Jonathan Felix Hugh Ellis, son of Major Timothy Basil Ellis, on 19 July 1975 23(iii). Lady Sallyanne Margaret Shirley born 22 Mar 1957, She died 6 July 2011, age 54 23(iv). Lady Selina Clare Shirley born 1 July 1958, She married Antoine Bertrand Robert Chenevière, son of Bertrand Chenevière, in 1989; She died 2 June 1998, age 39 23(v). Hon. Andrew John Carr Sewallis Shirley of Collycroft House, Clifton, Derbyshire born 24 June 1965; Educated at Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England; Registered as a Associate, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; He was a Regional Land Agent in 1996 married Tamara Halfpenny, daughter of Donald Halfpenny of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, on 3 October 1992 children 24(i). Henry Benedict John Shirley born 6 April 1997 24(ii). George Sewallis Peter Shirley born 18 September 1999 22(ii). Lady Elizabeth Hermione Shirley 22(iii). Lady Jane Penelope Justice Shirley; She married Rev Cannon John Maurice Robson, Canon Emeritus of Derby Cathedral; He died 1989
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