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[1] and, on 8 February 1869, of Staffordshire.[2] Ferrers was also commissioned a lieutenant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry cavalry on 8 February 1868.[3] He resigned his commission in 1871.[4]
He was invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.)[5] and was Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Derbyshire.[6]
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.
References
- ^ Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green. p. 744.
- ^ "No. 23478". The London Gazette. 12 March 1869. p. 1634.
- ^ "No. 23355". The London Gazette. 25 February 1868. p. 906.
- ^ "No. 23754". The London Gazette. 11 July 1871. p. 3146.
- ^ "No. 10766". The Edinburgh Gazette. 31 March 1896. p. 312.
- ^ "Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers". The Peerage. 5 April 2011.
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