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16(iii). Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers
born 18 Jul 1723; He died on 17 April 1787 at age 63.
Inherited the Earldom upon the death of his brother Washington
Shirley in 1778.
married Catherine Cotton, daughter of Rowland Cotton,
on 26 December 1754
children:
17(i). Sir Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers, born 21
Sep 1756, baptised 25 September 1756 at St Modwin, Burton Upon
Trent, Staffordshire. He died on 2 May 1827 at age 70, without
surviving legitimate issue. Inherited the Earldom upon the death
of his father Robert Shirley in 1787.
married 1) Elizabeth Prentise on 13 March 1778, daughter
of John Prentise.
married 2) Elizabeth Mundy on 28 September 1799, daughter
of Wrightson Mundy, .
children (by 1st wife Elizabeth Prentise)
18(i). Hon. Robert Sewallis Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
b. 9 November 1778, He died prior to the death of his father
Robert Shirley on 6 June 1824 at age 45, without issue.
married Hon. Sophia Caroline Curzon on 5 August 1800,
daughter of Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale
children: (illigitimate)
19(i). Caroline Shirley, Duchess of Sforza (more information)
 Natural
born daughter of the Viscount Tamworth and a woman who later
married an innkeeper of Syston. Caroline inherited many of the
Shirley estates upon the death of the 7th Earl. She married the
Duke of Sforza in 1837.
children: (illigitimate)
18(ii). Eleanor Rose Shirley - illigitimate. She died
13 January 1809. Married Col. Hilton Joliffe MP. (Debretts Peerage)
[Email from Ragdale Hall porter] As part of my talk I mention
the illegitimate daughter of the 7th Earl - Elizabeth Rose Shirley
who married by special licence in 1804 at the London home of
the Earl, one Colonel Hilton Joliffe MP. She died only four years
later and I can not find the cause. In 1802 Hylton Jolliffe had
formed the civil engineering company Jolliffe and Banks which
under his brothers later control built lots of bridges in London
for John Rennie including the London Bridge that was rebuilt
in Lake Havisu City USA. When Ragdale New Hall was let to tenants
after the 7th Earls death Hylton Jolliffe came to live there
in 1831 to hunt with the Quorn Hunt in his retirement.
17(ii). Lawrence Rowland Shirley baptised November
3 1757 at St Alkmund Parish, Derby. He died Friday 5 February
1773 (possibly 7 days earlier). His portrait, when very young
is preserved in Wright's celebrated picture of the Lecture on
the Orrery, well known from the engraving; the original is now
in the collection of Mr Wright of Osmanston Manor in Derbyshire
- source: Stemmata
General Evening Post: Saturday, February 6, 1773 -
Page 1 - Died. Last Friday, at the Hon. Mrs Shirley's in Upper
Brook Street. Master Lawrence Rowland Shirley, son of Robert
Shirley, esq and nephew to Earl Ferrers.
17(iii). Sir Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers born
13 Nov 1760 at St Alkmund Parish, Derby. He died on 2 October
1842 at age 81. Inherited the Earldom upon the death of his brother
Robert Shirley in 1827.
married 1) Frances Ward on 24 July 1781, daughter of
Reverend William Ward and Elizabeth Hawkes
married 2) Sarah Davy on 29 September 1829, daughter
of William Davy
children:
18(i). Hon. Robert William Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
was born on 24 August 1783. He died before the death of his father
Washington Shirley on 3 February 1830 at age 46
married Anne Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, on
12 December 1821 at Derbyshire, England.
children:
19(i). Rosamond Ann Myrtle Shirley b. 25 Sep 1818 at
Brailsford, Derbyshire, England, d. b 1881; She married Henry
Hanbury-Tracy, son of Charles Hanbury and Henretta Susanna Tracy,
on 19 June 1841
19(ii). Sir Washington Sewallis Shirley, 9th Earl Ferrers,
b. 3 Jan 1822, He died on 13 March 1859 at age 37. Inherited
the Earldom upon the death of his grandfather who died in 1842.
married Lady Augusta Annabella Chichester on 23 July
1844, daughter of Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall
and Amelia Spread Deane Grady.
children:
20(i). Lady Augusta Amelia Shirley d. 10 Feb 1933 She
married Sir Archdale Robert Palmer, 4th Bt. on 19 August 1873
20(ii). Sir Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers,
born 24 Jan 1847, He graduated from Cambridge University, Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire, England, with a Master of Arts (M.A.).2 He was
invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of
St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.). He held the office of Justice
of the Peace (J.P.) for Derbyshire. He died on 26 July 1912 at
age 65, without issue. Inherited the Earldom from his father
who died in 1859.
married Lady Ina Maude Hedges-White on 24 October 1885,
daughter of William Henry Hare Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry
and Jane Herbert.
The Earldom ended in this family
and reverted to the
male issue of a junior branch of the Shirley family, that of
the Rev Walter Shirley
19(iii). Lieutenant Robert William Devereux Shirley
b. 14 Dec 1825, gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service
of the 87th Regiment. He died on 4 June 1849 at age 23, without
issue.
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Lineage of the Earl Ferrers