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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Laurence Shirley Hon Note Born: 26 Sep 1693 Married: Died: 1760 at Executed For Murder, , , Father: Robert Shirley Sir Bart Mother: Elizabeth Washington
WIFE
Name: Anne Clarges Note Born: Died: Father: Walter Clarges Sir Bart Mother: Unknown
CHILDREN
Name: Robert Shirley 6th Earl Born: Died: 17 Apr 1787 Wife: Catherine Cotton
NOTES
1). 4th son. Of this Lord Ferrers a contemporary wrote He keeps as hospitable an house and entertains as nobly as any peer of the realm , buy on the whole the second and third earls were quite unremarkable people. Not so the fourth, Laurence Shirley 1720 1760who succeeded his uncle, the third earl, in 1745. Of him Burke writes in his Peerage Although not bereaved of intellect, this nobleman frequently evinced strong symptoms of a constitutional violence of temper and in one of the paroxisms of rage habitual with his lordship put to his own confidential land steward, and aged gentleman of the name of Johnson . Lord Ferrers wished to evict Johnson from his farm, and failing to do so, got him into his room at Staunton Harold, locked the door, pulled a pistol out of his pocket and shot him. He was tried by his peers in Westminster hall, found guilty of murder, andsentenced to death. During his imprisonment in the Tower of London before his execution, he was several times visited by his cousin Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. Ferres decided to die in the grand manner even though it was the death of a felon. When the fatal day arrived he put on a suit embroidered with silver and was driven from the Tower to Tyburn in his own landau drawn by six horses, and, according to tradition, was hanged with the silken cord which was the privilege of a peer instead of the hempen rope used for common murderers. A vast multitude of people assembled to watch the execution for which the new drop just introduced instead of the cart, ladder and medieval gibbet was used for the first time. Tyburn gallows stood close to the site of the marble Arch on the boundary of the parishes of St. Marylebone and Westminster.
2).  4th daughter.

						

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