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Shirley, Laurence, 1720-1760
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1720-1760
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SHIRLEY, LAURENCE, 4TH EARL FERRERS, eldest son of Hon. Laurence Shirley, and Anne, sister of Gould Clarges (qv); b. 18 Aug 1720; adm. May 1728; left 1729; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1737; succ. uncle as 4th Earl Ferrers 6 Aug 1745; shot dead his steward John Johnson at Staunton Harold, Leics., 18 Jan 1760; was tried in Westminster Hall by his peers, who unanimously found him guilty of murder 21 Apr 1760, although he pleaded “occasional insanity of mind”; m. 16 Sep 1752 Mary, sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv); hanged at Tyburn 5 May 1760. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.