Laurence Shirley, fourth Earl Ferrers

(1720-1760)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ferrers, Laurence Shirley, Earl, 1720-1760 DNB: Shirley, Laurence, fourth Earl Ferrers (1720–1760), murderer LBT ID: LdFerre4 VIAF ID: 61105130 LOC ID: no91001731	B/BAP: 1720-08-18 DIED: 1760-05-05
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After inheriting the title from a mad uncle in 1745, he demonstrated his own mental instability by murdering a servant, for which he was hung. He was a cousin of the Methodist Selina Hastings.
REFERENCES TO Laurence Shirley, fourth Earl Ferrers: Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) VIII. “When We Dead Awake” Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ n1