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4251 Plot: Block 8; Lot 33; Grave 2 HOULGATE, Herbert Paul (I49352)
 
4252 Plot: C of E Section 1; Line 12; Plot 28 SIMS, William Horace (I20707)
 
4253 Plot: D; 2184 ALTON, Joseph Lynam (I49164)
 
4254 Plot: E45; Memorial ID: 228480136 CLARKE, Florence Mary (I20285)
 
4255 Plot: F3; Section 638 RICE, Sidney (I50872)
 
4256 Plot: F5; 423 SIMS, Elizabeth (I10762)
 
4257 Plot: F5; Section 554 BROWN, Samuel (I647)
 
4258 Plot: Grave #3; Division B; Lot 184; Cypress Plot HOULGATE, Carroll Everard Snr. (I49351)
 
4259 Plot: I. A. 35. PUGH, Thomas (I46504)
 
4260 Plot: K10 BRIDGES, Kathleen Lorraine (I1661)
 
4261 Plot: Old Section 1439 WHAWELL, Gilbert Morley (I48601)
 
4262 Plot: Old Section 1439 TURNER, Sarah Alice (I48605)
 
4263 Plot: Old Section 4055 WHAWELL, Gilbert (I48547)
 
4264 Plot: Old Section 4055 STOKES, Sophia (I48548)
 
4265 Plot: Old Section 4342 WHAWELL, Harriet Iris (I48604)
 
4266 Plot: Section 1 (1 - 912) 19.08.05 MORRISON, Aaron (I10560)
 
4267 Plot: Section 23; Row 1; Grave 17 EATON, Lizzie (I49627)
 
4268 Plot: XXIV7735 ID: 22334609 GISBORNE, Norman Charles (I28891)
 
4269 Plot: XXVI8457 ID: 222334610 GISBORNE, Percy Byron (I28892)
 
4270 POW - Singapore SIMS, Eric (I47856)
 
4271 Priory Hospital BEMBRIDGE, Philip Anthony (I3870)
 
4272 Prof. Walter Waddington Shirley

Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley (1828–1866) was an English churchman and ecclesiastical historian.

Life
The only son of Walter Augustus Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man, he was born at Shirley, Derbyshire, on 24 July 1828. In 1837 he became pupil no. 2, second only to the headmaster's son, at Lieutenant C.R. Malden's preparatory school (now known as Windlesham House School) founded in that year at Newport, Isle of Wight. He left in 1839 for Rugby School under Thomas Arnold. His closest friend at Rugby and throughout his life was his cousin, William Henry Waddington, later in French politics.

In June 1846 Shirley matriculated at University College, Oxford, but in the following year he migrated to Wadham College, where he had gained a scholarship and became president of the Oxford Union. He obtained a first class in the honour school of mathematics in 1851, and in 1852 was elected a Fellow of his college. He had to vacate his fellowship three years later, on his mother's death, when he inherited a small landed property. From 1855 to 1863 he was tutor and mathematical lecturer of Wadham. It was during this period that he began historical study.

His theological views underwent considerable change; the position which Shirley occupied at the time of his death was still a provisional one. Having been in his early days a disciple of Arnold, he ultimately came to regard ‘undogmatic Christianity’ as a contradiction in terms. In May 1863, he preached in the university church a sermon on the unreasonableness of Arnold's teaching. Later that year he was made regius professor of ecclesiastical history and canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the pioneers of the university extension movement, and played a part in the founding of Keble College. His career was cut short at the age of thirty-eight. He died on 20 November 1866.

Works
In 1858 his edition of Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif was published in the Rolls Series. He began a life of John Wiclif, which he did not live to complete, though in 1865 he published ‘Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wiclif,’ Oxford. In 1862 he edited for the Rolls Series ‘Royal and other Historical Letters illustrative of the Reign of Henry III.’

He also published a lecture on ‘Scholasticism,’ delivered before the university of Oxford, 1866. After his death a small volume by him, entitled ‘Some Account of the Church in the Apostolic Age,’ was published by the Clarendon Press 
SHIRLEY, Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington (I25521)
 
4273 Queen Anne's Gate VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward (I15152)
 
4274 Queen's Square VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward (I15152)
 
4275 Raby Castle NEVILLE, John 3rd Baron Neville of Raby, KG (I12799)
 
4276 Registered at the Belper District Office - see Vol 19, page 451 Family: Anthony HAMBLETON / Esther TURNER (F2134)
 
4277 Registered at the Belper District Office, see Vol 7b, page 356 HAMBLETON, Anthony (I379)
 
4278 Registry Office Family: Charlie TURTON / Mabel Beatrice Jessie ALLEN (F2742)
 
4279 Registry Office Family: Horace William Lovegrow DAWES / Lily DELANEY (F2778)
 
4280 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Family: Garry Leigh BLAKEMORE / Living (F2696)
 
4281 Remembered on her husband's memorial in Connecticut, USA MORLEY, Mary (I48738)
 
4282 Remembered on his Father's headstone at Duffield Cemetery RODGERS, John (I46322)
 
4283 Remembered on parents sarcophagus at All Saints Church, Brailsford HULLAND, Rebecca Jane (I23377)
 
4284 Revensworth Castle DE GREYSTOKE, Ralph 3rd Baron Greystoke (I15847)
 
4285 Richford Center Cemetery RYEA, Richard Walter (I9676)
 
4286 Riding Accident SPENCER, Lt.-Cmdr. Hon. Cecil Edward Robert R.N. DSC, Croix de guerre (I14466)
 
4287 Rievaulx Abbey DE ROS, John 5th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KB (I15540)
 
4288 Robert Washington Shirley

Robert Washington Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, PC, DL (8 June 1929 – 13 November 2012), styled Viscount Tamworth between 1937 and 1954, was a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. He was one of the few people to serve in the governments of five prime ministers.

Background and education
Lord Ferrers was the eldest child and only son of Robert Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers. Educated at the West Downs School, Winchester College, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he succeeded to become 13th Earl Ferrers in 1954 on the death of his father. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 2 February 1955.

He received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards on 27 November 1948, serving in Malaya. His commission was regularised on 4 March 1950, with seniority from 1 January 1949. Tamworth was promoted to lieutenant on 3 August 1950.

Political career
An early contribution in parliament in 1957 was against the admission of women:

Frankly, I find women in politics highly distasteful. In general, they are organising, they are pushing and they are commanding. Some of them do not even know where loyalty to their country lies. I disagree with those who say that women in your Lordships' House would cheer up our Benches. If one looks at a cross-section of women already in Parliament I do not feel that one could say that they are an exciting example of the attractiveness of the opposite sex. I believe that there are certain duties and certain responsibilities which nature and custom have decreed men are more fitted to take on ; and some responsibilities which nature and custom have decreed women should take on. It is generally accepted that the man should bear the major responsibility in life. It is generally accepted, for better or worse, that a man's judgment is generally more logical and less tempestuous than that of a woman. Why then should we encourage women to eat their way, like acid into metal, into positions of trust and responsibility which previously men have held? If we allow women into this House where will this emancipation end? Shall we in a few years' time be referring to “the noble and learned Lady, the Lady Chancellor”? I find that a horrifying thought. But why should we not? Shall we follow the rather vulgar example set by Americans of having female ambassadors? Will our judges, for whom we have so rich and well-deserved respect, be drawn from the serried ranks of the ladies? If that is so, I would offer to the most reverend Primate the humble and respectful advice that he had better take care lest he may find himself out of a job. These examples may sound a little excessive, but I fail to see any reason whatever why, if one allows women to become Peers, this form of emancipation should not extend into those other positions of trust and responsibility which in the past have been carried out, and to such good effect, by men. There is another reason: in this age of science and statistics, where everything has to be accounted for and tabulated, where even the atom and the molecule are no longer a mass of red and green balls attached by pieces of wire which no well-intentioned student could ever understand, there are nevertheless three virtues which evade such tabulation: common sense, intuition and judgement; and I do not believe that the common sense, intuition and judgement of the public will allow women to be taken into those positions of trust of which I have spoken. I hope, therefore, that your lordships' judgement and logic will be such that women will not find their way here."

In the event, a small number of women came into the Lords as a result of the Life Peerages Act 1958. Women who held hereditary peerages in their own right were admitted by the Peerage Act 1963.

Ferrers served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip) from 1962 until 1964 under both Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home. When the Conservatives were returned to power under Edward Heath, he once again served as a Lord-in-Waiting from 1971 to 1974, then serving as a Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) at the beginning of 1974.

When the Conservatives were returned to power under Margaret Thatcher in 1979, Lord Ferrers returned to MAFF, this time as a Minister of State. He left office in 1983, and returned to the backbenches in the Lords. In 1988 he returned to government service as a Minister of State at the Home Office, and in 1994 moved to the Department of Trade and Industry, where he remained until 1995, when he became Minister for the Environment at the Department of the Environment. Between 1979 and 1983, and again between 1988 and 1997, he served as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords.

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Ferrers along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was, however, elected as one of the 92 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform, coming first in the ballot.

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1982. Earl Ferrers was a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and Grand Prior of the Grand Bailiwick & Priory of England and Wales of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. He was also High Steward of Norwich Cathedral from 1979-2007 and a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk from 1983. He was moved to the retired list in 2004 upon reaching the Mandatory retirement age of 75.

Earl Ferrers was Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 1979 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1997, and Minister of State in four different departments: at Agriculture, Food and Fisheries from 1979 to 1983; at the Home Office from 1988 to 1994; at the Department of Trade and Industry (in charge of small firms and consumer affairs) from 1994 to 1995; and at the Department of the Environment (responsible for environment and the countryside) from 1995 to 1997 
SHIRLEY, Robert Washington 13th Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth, M.P., P.C., D.L (I28183)
 
4289 Rock Ridge Cemetery COPELAND, Mary (I17316)
 
4290 Rock Ridge Cemetery GANNETT, Benjamin (I17328)
 
4291 Roman Catholic Cemetery MCLOUGHLIN, Albert (I6454)
 
4292 Rosedale Cemetery Mary Jane (I18480)
 
4293 Rosedale Cemetery BATTERLEY, George Henry (I18490)
 
4294 Rosedale Cemetery BATTERLEY, Frederick (I18501)
 
4295 Rosedale Cemetery WILTSE, Bertha Luella (I18583)
 
4296 Saint Hulbert Catholic Cemetery SCHULER, Mary (I16533)
 
4297 Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery MEIER, Lena (I16344)
 
4298 Saint Mary's Church, St. Marylebone Road BAGOT, Hon. Alfred Walter (I15201)
 
4299 Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery SCHULER, Suzanne (I16553)
 
4300 Sec 7; Row E; Grave 17 CLARK, Samuel (I20208)
 

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