7i6 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE.

•9. Benry, born Nov. 14, 1691 ; and 10. Laurence, and in 1725? and again in 1727, was constituted lord born Sept. 26, 1693; ot both whom also hereafter. lieutenant cf Staffordshire, married Mary daughter of The daughters were, sir Richard Levinz, bart. one of the judges of the ' I. Elizabeth, and, 2. Catharine; both died young. king's bench in Ireland ; and by her (who died 1740) 3. Elizabeth, born Jan. acr, 1678 ; married Walter had three daughters, coheirs; 1. Elizabeth, married Clarges, efq. half-brother to lir Thomas Clarges, bart. June24,1725, to Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale, of Mam-, A,. Anna-Eleanor a, , born Nov. 12, i6yy; died ini head, co. Devon, efq. (by whom (be had one son, Wajh. ingten Gascoigne, efq. who died unmarried in 1754; Way 1754. 754 and Elizabeth, who married William of Ltjburne 5 . Catharineh ; died unmarried Sept. 23, 1736. 6 in the , and died May 10, 1755, 6. Dorothy, born May 24, 16S3; married to leaving issue.) Lady Elizabeth Nightingale died Aug. Cotes, eiq. ot Woodcote, Shropihiie, and had iflue. 17, 1731, æt. 27 ; and her husband July 20, 1752, 7. Barbara, bcrti Feb. 5, 1688. æt. 56 ; directing by his will a monument to be erected ^o^^r/ (the eldest son), born Sept. 4, 1673, mar- in Westminster Abbey, which has immortalized their ried, ist, Catharine, daughter of Peter Venables, ba- memories, and the fame of Roubilliac. ron of Kinderton; aud (he deceasing in her nonage, he The other daughters of the second earl were, married, secondly (Sept. 2,7, 1688) Anne, daughter of 2. Selina, born 1705; married June 3, I'jz^fto , fir Humphrey Ferrers, of .Tainworth castle, km. who ephilus Hastings earl of (she was mother of died in March, 1697. the late earl of Huntingdon, and died in 1791, aged 87,) This Robert Shirley, who died Feb. i$, 1698-9^ had 3. Mary, married, June 29, 1730, Thomas Needham, by his second lady one daughter and three sons; viscount Kilmorey of Ireland ; and died, without issue, 1. Robert, born Dec. 2>, 1692 j who, on his grancU Aug. 4, 1767. father's being created in 1711, acquired Earl Wastiington died April 14, 1729. the title of lord viscount Tamworth; and, dying unmar- The next six sons of the first earl, Charles, Charles, ried July 5, 1714, in his izd year, was buried at Lewis, George, Ferrers, Walter, all died unmarried. Staunton Harold, with a handsome monument». Henry, the ninth ion, succeeded, as third earl Fer- 2 Ferrers, born 1697, was entered as a nobleman rers, in 1729 ; was appointed lord lieutenant of Staf-, at Christ Church, Oxford, April 26, 1710. He died fordshire 1731 ; and died unmarried in August 1745. on the 10th of October following; and was buried Laurence, the tenth sono f the first earl, " was a gen- in the college chapel, where a mural tablet is thus tleman whose honour was inviolable, his good-nature inscribed by the hand of early friendship : u engaging, and his religion serious; a most affectionate Memoriae sacrum husband, a tender parent, and a kind master3." He _ viri honorabilis FERRERS SHIRLEY, died April 27, 1743; having had issue, by Anne, filii natu secundi 2 daughter of sir Walter Clarges, bart. of Aston, Herts, konoratiffirni vicecomitis de Tamworth , (who died May 29, 1782), six sons and six daughters. (houoratiffimi lioberti comitis de Ferrers Robert the first earl Ferrers married, secondly, in Au- silii natu maximi:) gust 1699, Selina daughter of George Unch, efq.; who annos abhinc circiter quinquaginta survived him nearly 45 }'''ars, and residtd in a large house iEdis Christi superioris ordinis commensalis ; at Twickenham+, which the earl her husband had adolefcentis vultu adeo'honesto ac liberali, built, not far from Mr. Pope's, on the opposite fideo f et moribus adeo puris atque illibatis the lane, and where she died in 17625, This lady and ut' nihil supra. one of her daughters are thus recorded on a flat stone Honofatiffimus Jacob vicecomes de Folkestone on the North side of Twickenham church-yard : t ejufdem Ædis, ordinis, ac temporis, " Here lieth the right honourable Selina aictiffimo Neceffitudinis vinculo countess dowager Ferrers, / nimis heu ! brevi conjunctus, who departed this life March 20, 1762, pristinæ non immetnor amicitiæ, in the 80th year of her age. pignus hoc fidei tumulo superstitis Also '/ere lieth the body of excitari testameiito juffit, 1761." the honourable lady Mary Tryon, 3. Thomas, died May tc, 1708, f. p. widow of Charles Tryon, of Buckinghamshire, efq. Elizabeth,their only sister and heiress, born in August daughter of Robert earl Ferrers, 1694, was married in 17 16 to James Compton earl of who died May 17, 1771, aged 68." Northampton; became in 1717, on her grandfather's By this lady his lordship had the following ten chil- death, baroness De Ferrars oiChartley, Bourchier,Ba(J'etdren, making in all twenty-seven : of Draytcn, and Louvaine; and, dying March 13,1741, r. Robert, born May 27, 1700; elected M. P. for Charlotte her only surviving daughter succeeded to her Stamford 1727; died unmarried in July 1738. mother's titles; and in 1751 was married to the hon. 2. George, died an infant, 1704. George fownjhend (the prelent marquis); and, dying 3. George, born 1705; a caprain in the first regiment Sept. 13, 1770, her eldest son George became baron de of foot-guards; resided at Twickenham in Middlesex, Ferrars, he; and, by patent, dated May iS, 1784, was and at Eatendon, co. Warwick. He married Mary, .advanced to the dignity of earl of the county of Lei- daughter of Humphry Start, efq. by whom he had two cester ; and is also heir to the marquifate oiTownJhend. sons, George6 and Evelyn1; and two daughters, Selina* Wajhington (second son of the first earl, born June and Margarets. He died Oct.,22, 1787 Io, aged 82; 22, 1677), who in 1717 became second earl Ferrers, and his widow died in 1799. 1 See the inscription in p. 720; and an engraving of the monument in Plate XCV1. S There is a slight mistake in this epitaph. The father of the hon. Ferrers Shirley died before the grandfather was ad- v.mced to the dignity of an earl. See pp. 715. 720. 3 Staunton Harold Family Register, signed by his chaplain. * This houle had the advantage of very extensive gard.-ns and grounds ; and a terrace facing the Thnmes, in the centre of which is a handsome summer-house of brick, with stone ornaments and a dome top, commanding an extenlive view of the river and the surrounding country. On the death of Selina countess Ferrers, it became the property of her son the hon. George Shirley; and at his death was purchased by the late Welbore Ellis, efq. (afterwards lord Mendip), who was also the owner of Mr. Pope's villa. The old house was very lately taken down, and a small one crested in the meadow looking op the Thames; and on the lite of the old house (of which the wings were left standin-g) is erected a neat and commod.ous dwelling. s " The right honourable countess dowager Ferrers buried March 25, 1762." Parilh Kegister. : a Married first Miss Wood, who died in 1784, s. p. ; secondly, Miss Stanley. He died March 15, 1793, C. p. .' Married Mils Frampton of Dorsetsliire, and has issue. 8 " Sir Thomas George Skipuith, bart. married at Marybone-, Sept. 23, 1785, to Selina daughter of the honourable Georgs Shirley." Parilh Register.—This lady is now living, 3 widow. 9 Married, in 1782, John Smith, of Combhay, co. Somerset ; and has issue. 10 He died and was buried at Eatendon, where he has a noble monument (for the expence of which his father had bequeathed ^Tiooo. with {bra latent of having bis own monument erected in thechapel of Staunton Harold.) It is about 12 feet high, of a pyramidical form. On it are the figures, as large as life, of the earl and countess, his father and mother, in their robes, with their coronets in their hands; and in the centre is Mr. Shirk-y, in a recumbent posture, in a suit of armour, with a truncheon in his hand; and a long inscription of the intermarringes of the family: so that it is Mr. George Shirley's monument, not thai of bis fatW.' Admii al Washington earl Ferrers obji-ctul to having this monument put uj> in Staunton Harold chape,l for fo.egoing reason. chapel for the 5 •