page_title: Earl Ferrers
section_title: Shirley Baronets, of Staunton Harold (1611)
hierarchical_section_title: Earl Ferrers / Shirley Baronets, of Staunton Harold (1611)
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: heraldgenealogis08nich_0 (find matches) Title: The Herald and genealogist Year: 1874 (1870s) Authors: Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 Subjects: Heraldry Publisher: London&#160;: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: , and which are even stilloccasionally cropping up. Besides, the pedigree has, of course, grownwith the lapse of time, and all the last descents up to the presentdate have been added. We may notice, however, a few of the moreimportant additions and corrections: — At p. 12 is a very curious illustration in the shape of a cross of thetwelfth or thirteenth century, now preserved at York, and which istraditionally said to have been given by Arnulph to an ancestor ofthe Shirleys in the time of the First Crusade. At p. 25 is a woodcut of the tomb of Margaret Waldershef, LadyShirley, not in the first edition. At pp. 35 and 36 additional woodcuts representing the death of SirHugh Shirley and the arms of Joan Newmarch from a pedigree inthe Harleian collection. At p. 41 some important corrections as to Sir Ealph Shirley andthe Battle of Agincourt, derived from the researches of the late Mr.Joseph Hunter. At p. 54 a correction of the line of Hugh Shirley, a youngerbrother of Sir Ralph Shirley. Text Appearing After Image: STEMMATA SHIRLEIANA. 485 At p. 58 a fac-simile of an inscription in her own hand by Margaretmother of Henry VII. in an illuminated Office of the Virgin, pre-sented by her to Lady Shirley. At p. 83 very considerable additions to the History of Sir GeorgeShirley, the first Baronet; and p. 120 to that of Sir Thomas Shirley,the antiquary; and at p. 142 to that of his nephew Sir Eobert Shirley.The same may be said as regards the Memoirs of the Lord Ferrers,and most of the notices of the later Shirleys. At p. 206 is a list of the works of the late Bishop Shirley, andat p. 209 another of those of his son, the late Canon Shirley, Pro-fessor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, whoseearly death in 1866 was lamented by all who were acquainted withhim, either personally or by his works. At p. 220 a curious bit of comparatively modern gossip identifyingLady Stuarta Shirley with the lady who rejected Sir Hugh Smithson,and indirectly caused the match between her lover and the Seym Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Earl Ferrers is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The Shirley family descends from George Shirley of Astwell Castle, Northamptonshire. In 1611 he was created a Baronet, of Staunton Harold in the County of Leicester, in the Baronetage of England. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He married Lady Dorothy Devereux, daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. On the death of her brother Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, she became the youngest co-heir to the baronies of Ferrers of Chartley and the barony of Bourchier, which had fallen into abeyance on the death of the third Earl. Shirley was succeeded by his eldest son, the third Baronet. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Baronet. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London by Cromwell and died there in 1656. On his death the title passed to his eldest son, the fifth Baronet. He died at an early age and was succeeded at birth by his posthumous son, the sixth Baronet.
  He died as an infant and was succeeded by his uncle, the seventh Baronet.
context_section_description: Sir George Shirley, 1st Baronet (1559–1622)
  Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1588–1633)
  Sir Charles Shirley, 3rd Baronet (1623–1646)
  Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Baronet (d. 1656)
  Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Baronet (1647–1667)
  Sir Robert Shirley, 6th Baronet (1668–1669)
  Sir Robert Shirley, 7th Baronet (1650–1717) (confirmed as Baron Ferrers of Chartley in 1677 and created Earl Ferrers in 1711)
caption: "Quarterings of Shirley from the Great Family Pedigree, 1632"
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