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.
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.
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Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers
Robert Washington Shirley, 13th
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He was one of the few people to serve in the governments of five different Prime Ministers.
Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers
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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.
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.

Question: Who is Washington Shirley, 2Nd Earl Ferrers's paternal grandmother?
Answer: Catherine Okeover