Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers
Robert Washington Shirley, 13th
Earl Ferrers PC DL( 8 June 1929 – 13 November 2012), styled Viscount Tamworth between 1937 and 1954, was a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers.
He was one of the few people to serve in the governments of five different Prime Ministers.
Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (12 November 1696 – 13 October 1746) was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler.
Hastings married Lady Selina Shirley, daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers and Mary Levinge, on 3 June 1728.
The couple lived at Donington Park.
He fathered seven legitimate children including Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon 13 March 1729 – 2 October 1789) and Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira (1731–1808).
He had an illegitimate son, Sir George Hastings (1733–1783).
There is a monument to him in St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers
Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers (20 July 1723 – 18 April 1787) was a British nobleman.
He was born in 1723 in St James, Westminster, the third son of Hon.
Laurence Shirley.
On 26 December 1754, he married Catherine Cotton (d. 26 March 1786), by whom he had three children:
In 1778, he succeeded his brother, Vice-Admiral
the 5th Earl Ferrers, in the earldom.
On 4 July 1781, he was created a deputy lieutenant of Derbyshire.
He died in his house in London in 1787 aged 63, and was buried with his wife at Breedon on the Hill.
Robert Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers
Robert Walter Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers (7 July 1894 – 11 October 1954), was a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers
Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers (13 November 1760 – 2 October 1842), styled Hon.
Washington Shirley from 1778 to 1827, was a British nobleman.
The third son of Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers, he was educated at Westminster School.
On 19 May 1780, he was appointed a cupbearer in the Royal Household, but this sinecure was abolished on 14 November 1782.
Shirley married Frances (d. 4 March 1812), daughter of Rev. William Ward and granddaughter of William Ward, on 24 July 1781 at Gretna Green.
They had one son and two daughters:
After the death of his first wife, Ferrers married Sarah Davy (d. 30 June 1835) on 28 September 1829.
They had no children.
As his nephew had predeceased him without legitimate issue, Washington succeeded his elder brother in the earldom in 1827.
On 13 July 1832, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Leicestershire.
He died at Chartley on 2 October 1842 aged 81 and was buried at Staunton Harold.
John T. Walker
John Thomas Walker( July 27, 1925 – September 30, 1989) was Bishop of Washington from 1977 to 1989 in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
From 1978 to 1989, he also served as Dean of Washington National Cathedral.
Previously, he served as Bishop Coadjutor from 1976 to 1977 and Bishop Suffragan from 1971 to 1976.
He was the first African- American Bishop of Washington.
Sewallis Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers
Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers( 24 January 1847 – 26 July 1912), styled Viscount Tamworth until 1859, was a British peer.
He was the son of Washington Sewallis Shirley, 9th Earl Ferrers and Lady Augusta Annabella Chichester.
Ferrers was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1867 and an M.A. in 1871.
He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Derbyshire and, on 8 February 1869, of Staffordshire.
Ferrers was also commissioned a lieutenant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry cavalry on 8 February 1868.
He resigned his commission in 1871.
He was invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem( K.St.J.) and was Justice of the Peace( J.P.) for Derbyshire.
On 24 October 1885, at St George's, Hanover Square, he married Lady Ina Maude Hedges- White, daughter of William Hedges- White, 3rd Earl of Bantry and Jane Herbert.
The 10th Earl Ferrers died at age 65; his marriage was childless.
He was succeeded by Walter Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers.
Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers
Vice Admiral Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, FRS( 26 May 1722 – 1 October 1778) was a British Royal Navy officer, peer, freemason and amateur astronomer.
Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers
Robert William Saswalo Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers( born 29 December 1952), styled Viscount Tamworth from 1954 to 2012, is a chartered accountant and a British peer.
Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers
Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers( 22 June 1677 – 14 April 1729), styled Hon. Washington Shirley until 1714 and Viscount Tamworth from 1714 to 1717, was a British nobleman and soldier.
The second but first surviving son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers( by his first wife, Elizabeth Washington), he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1693.
In 1697, he was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards.
He left the regiment at some time after 1702.
From 1713 until 1715, he sat for Fore in Ireland, apparently on his wife's interest.
Upon the death of his nephew Robert Shirley, Viscount Tamworth in 1714, he adopted that title as heir apparent to his father.
He succeeded to the earldom in 1717, but the estates were much diminished by his stepmother's jointure and bequests to his brothers and half- brothers.
He had married Mary Levinge( d. January 1740), daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet, around 1704.
They had three daughters: Appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire in 1725, he died in 1729.
The earldom, for lack of male issue, passed to his brother Henry, a lunatic.

Question: Where did Washington Shirley, 8Th Earl Ferrers's father die?
Answer: London