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.
Henry Shirley, 3rd Earl Ferrers
Henry Shirley, 3rd Earl Ferrers( 14 November 1691 – 6 August 1745), known as Hon. Henry Shirley until 1729, was an English nobleman and lunatic.
Shirley was the ninth, but second surviving, son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers.
His mental disorder led his younger brother, Laurence, to obtain a commission of lunacy against him.
However, Henry's condition improved and he regained control of his estates in October 1730, the year after he succeeded his brother Washington in the earldom.
While well enough to accept the offices of Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire in 1731, he again relapsed into insanity, although he was not removed from office until 1742.
He was confined during the last years of his life, and died in Kensington Gore in 1745 aged 53.
He was succeeded by his nephew Laurence.
Robert Shirley (MP)
Robert Shirley( 27 May 1700 – 12 July 1738) was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.
The eleventh son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers( and eldest by his second wife, Selina Finch), Robert inherited the estate of Ettington and an equal share, with his three full brothers, in the family's lands in Ireland( the Shirleys held the western moiety of the Barony of Farney) when his father died in 1717.
At the 1727 election, Shirley was returned as Member of Parliament for Stamford on the Earl of Exeter's interest.
A Tory, he resolutely opposed Robert Walpole's ministry, but did not stand again in 1734.
He died in 1738, leaving Ettington to his next brother, George.
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.
Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers
Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers PC (20 October 1650 – 25 December 1717)—known as Sir Robert Shirley, 7th Baronet, from 1669 to 1677 and Robert Shirley, 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, from 1677 to 1711—was an English peer and courtier.
Shirley was born at East Sheen, the third son of Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Baronet and his wife Catherine Okeover.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
In March 1669, he inherited his baronetcy from his infant nephew, and received an M.A. from Oxford in 1669.
Shirley was suggested as a candidate for Lichfield in 1677 by Thomas Thynne, husband of his second cousin Frances, but he preferred to accept a seat in the House of Lords, the barony of Ferrers of Chartley being called out of abeyance for him in December.
He was also appointed a deputy lieutenant of Staffordshire shortly thereafter.
In 1683, he was appointed high steward of Stafford, replacing the Duke of Monmouth.
On 18 February 1684, Lord Ferrers was appointed Master of the Horse to the Queen Consort, Catherine of Braganza.
After Charles II's death in 1685, he became the Dowager Queen's Lord Steward and "Chief Bailiff of the Revenues", in which post he served until her death in 1705.
Among the Queen's property was the honour of Higham Ferrers, part of the Duchy of Lancaster, which had been granted to her for life by Charles II with reversion to the Earl of Feversham, her Lord Chamberlain.
Since Feversham avoided open politics after the Glorious Revolution in 1689, the offices of the honour were in Ferrers' gift.
This allowed him to choose the Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers until 1703, when Thomas Watson-Wentworth, whose brother had married Feversham's sister-in-law, purchased from him the reversion of the honour of Higham Ferrers and took over the electoral interest.
At the coronation of King James II in April, Ferrers was assistant lord cupbearer.
He was also the first colonel of The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot, raised in the summer of 1685, during the Monmouth Rebellion, but was removed in favor of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick on 1 November 1686.
In September 1687, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, replacing the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was unwilling to comply with James II's orders for purging the commission of the peace and packing Parliament with royalist candidates (to secure the repeal of the Test Act and the Penal Laws).
However, Ferrers proved no more tractable, and was replaced in November by Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar.
He was also dismissed from the high stewardship of Stafford in February 1688.
In December 1688, after the outbreak of the Glorious Revolution, Ferrers, Lord Chesterfield, and a retinue of gentlemen attended Princess Anne in Nottingham and escorted her to Warwick.
Under William III and Mary II, Ferrers was re-appointed as high steward of Stafford.
In 1692, Ferrers and Thynne (the latter now Viscount Weymouth) decided to partition the Barony of Farney in County Monaghan, both possessing an equal moiety of it as coheirs of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.
The barony was surveyed and divided into lands of equal value, Weymouth taking the eastern moiety and Ferrers the western.
However, the survey soon proved to be faulty, and Ferrers' share of lesser value.
Weymouth generously deeded a portion of his share to Ferrers to equalize them, a process completed in 1706.
Ferrers was admitted to the Privy Council on 25 May 1699.
He was retained in the Privy Council of Queen Anne, and was again assistant lord cupbearer at her coronation.
John Macky described him during her reign:
Is a very honest Man, a Lover of his Country, a great Improver of Gardening and Parking; a keen Sportsman, never was yet in Business, but is very capable; a tall, fair Man, towards sixty Years old.
After his second marriage to Selina Finch in 1699, he spent much of his time at a house he built in Twickenham, Heath Lane Lodge.
On 3 September 1711, Lord Ferrers was created Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth.
On his death at Bath six years later, his earldom passed to his second (but eldest surviving)
son Washington, whilst his barony passed to his granddaughter, Elizabeth, her father and elder brother having died in 1698 and 1714, respectively.
Washington received the family's Northamptonshire estates in fee simple, while those in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire were to some extent encumbered by annuities to his four younger half-brothers and a jointure to the Dowager Countess Selina.
She also received Heath Lane Lodge, which was then to go to her eldest son; he also inherited the Ettington Park estate near Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, and he and his three full brothers were jointly left the Earl's Irish lands in County Monaghan.
The estate of Garsdon in Wiltshire, inherited from the Washingtons, went to the Earl's third surviving son, Laurence.
Harriet McIlquham
Harriet McIlquham (8 August 1837 – 24 January 1910), also seen as Harriett McIlquham, was an English suffragist.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers
Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers FSA( 21 September 1756 – 2 May 1827), styled Viscount Tamworth from 1778 to 1787, was a British nobleman.
The eldest son of Robert Shirley, he became a courtesy viscount after his father succeeded his brother in the earldom in 1778.
On 4 July 1781, both Ferrers and Tamworth were appointed deputy lieutenants for Derbyshire.
He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1787.
Ferrers was named a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1788, and was much interested in genealogy.
Robert married Elizabeth Prentiss( d. 14 September 1799) on 13 March 1778 at St Leonard's, Shoreditch.
They had one son:
He married his second wife, Elizabeth Mundy( d. 22 February 1827), daughter of Wrightson Mundy, on 28 September 1799, by whom he left no issue.
Since his son predeceased him, he was succeeded by his brother Washington when he died at Hastings in 1827 aged 70.
The Earl and his second wife were both buried at Breedon on the Hill.
He left the family estates at Ragdale and Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, which had descended from the Basset family, to his granddaughter Caroline, later Duchess Sforza Cesarini.
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, 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.

Question: Who was born first out of Robert Shirley, 13Th Earl Ferrers and Harriet Mcilquham?
Answer: Harriet Mcilquham