Background
The second but first surviving son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (by his first wife, Elizabeth Washington), he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1693.
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Education
Trinity College.
Career
Washington Shirley until 1714 and Viscount Tamworth from 1714 to 1717, was a British nobleman and soldier. In 1695, he was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards. From 1713 until 1715, he sat for Fore in Ireland, apparently on his wife"s interest.
They had three daughters:
Lady Elizabeth Shirley (1704 – 17 August 1734), married Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale and had issue.
A remarkable monument to the couple exists in Westminster Abbey. Lady Selina Shirley (1707–1791), married Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
Lady Mary Shirley (25 September 1712 – 12 August 1784), married Thomas Needham, 9th Viscount Kilmorey, without issue
Appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire in 1725, he died in 1729.
