Robert Shirley Bt
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Robert Shirley Bt (aft. 1623 - 1656)

Sir Robert "4th Baronet Shirley, of Staunton Harold" Shirley Bt
Born after in Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1647 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died before age 33 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Preceded By
Sir Charles Shirley
4th Baronet Shirley of Staunton Harold
1646 - 1656
Succeded By
Sir Seymour Shirley

Biography

European Aristocracy
Sir Robert Shirley was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Bt. was born after 1623. He was the son of Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Bt. and Lady Dorothy Devereux.[1]

Sir Robert married Catherine Okeover, daughter of Humphrey Okeover.[2]

In 1645, Robert was admitted a fellow commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The following year upon the premature death of his brother, Sir Charles Shirley, succeeded him in the baronetcy and estates, being at that time about fifteen years old, and a ward, as also his brother had been of his uncle Lord Essex.

Sir Robert Shirley built a church at Staunton Harold during the time Cromwell made it penal for any persons to keep in their houses any of the sequestered or ejected ministers in the capacity of chaplains or tutors, which forbade them likewise to preach to any others than the members of their own families, to perform of the offices of religion, or to use the book of Common Prayer.

Staunton Harold continued to be during Sir Robert's life, an asylum to many of the distressed divines. So upsetting was this that an order was issued to Sir Robert saying, "He that could afford to build a church, could no doubt afford also to equip a ship;" Sir Robert Shirley refused, and was sent to the Tower of London, dying at age 27, suspicion of poisoning.[3]

Children

  1. Seymour Shirley 5th Baronet, b. 23 Jan 1646/47, d. 16 Jul 1667
  2. Sewallis Shirley 1648–1650
  3. Robert Shirley 1st Earl Ferrers, b. 20 Oct 1650, d. 25 Dec 1717
  4. Katherine Shirley Venables 1652–1717
  5. Dorothy Shirley b. ? d. 1680

Sources

  1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 250. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage
  2. Burkes Peerage 2003 volume 1, page 1416
  3. Find A Grave Memorial# 85260023




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