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4501 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Family: Garry Leigh BLAKEMORE / Living (F2696)
 
4502 Remembered on her husband's memorial in Connecticut, USA MORLEY, Mary (I48738)
 
4503 Remembered on his Father's headstone at Duffield Cemetery RODGERS, John (I46322)
 
4504 Remembered on in-Laws headstone SIMS, Doris (I4996)
 
4505 Remembered on parents headstone ROLFE, Henry Walter (I2)
 
4506 Remembered on parents sarcophagus at Brailsford, Derbyshire Dales HULLAND, Rebecca Jane (I23377)
 
4507 Revensworth Castle DE GREYSTOKE, Ralph 3rd Baron Greystoke (I15847)
 
4508 Richford Center Cemetery RYEA, Richard Walter (I9676)
 
4509 Riding Accident SPENCER, Lt.-Cmdr. Hon. Cecil Edward Robert R.N. DSC, Croix de guerre (I14466)
 
4510 Rievaulx Abbey DE ROS, John 5th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KB (I15540)
 
4511 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)
 
4512 Rock Ridge Cemetery COPELAND, Mary (I17316)
 
4513 Rock Ridge Cemetery GANNETT, Benjamin (I17328)
 
4514 Roman Catholic Cemetery MCLOUGHLIN, Albert (I6454)
 
4515 Rosedale Cemetery Mary Jane (I18480)
 
4516 Rosedale Cemetery BATTERLEY, George Henry (I18490)
 
4517 Rosedale Cemetery BATTERLEY, Frederick (I18501)
 
4518 Rosedale Cemetery WILTSE, Bertha Luella (I18583)
 
4519 Saint Hulbert Catholic Cemetery SCHULER, Mary (I16533)
 
4520 Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery MEIER, Lena (I16344)
 
4521 Saint Mary's Church, St. Marylebone Road BAGOT, Hon. Alfred Walter (I15201)
 
4522 Saint Nicholas Catholic Cemetery SCHULER, Suzanne (I16553)
 
4523 Sec 7; Row E; Grave 17 CLARK, Samuel (I20208)
 
4524 Section 75 Grave 29 ROLFE, Signalman Kenneth Joseph (I14626)
 
4525 Shakopee Catholic Cemetery SCHULER, Michael (I16426)
 
4526 Shakopee Catholic Cemetery SCHILDT, Mary Ann (I16444)
 
4527 She died of Scarlet Fever during childbirth. Her daughter died a few days later and was buried with her SLATER, Harriet Whipple (I42382)
 
4528 Sheer Mills ALLSOP, Esther (I14868)
 
4529 Sibton Abbey LEVETT- SCHRIVENER, Cpt. Egerton Bagot Byrd R.N. J.P. (I14551)
 
4530 Slain at the Siege of Meaux CLIFFORD, John 7th Baron de Clifford, 7th Lord of the Honor of Sk (I14704)
 
4531 Smallpox POWHATAN, Matoaka Amonute (I12913)
 
4532 Smallpox PARKE, Lucy (I13731)
 
4533 Smallpox CAESAR, Sir Charles Adelmare (I15424)
 
4534 Smallpox CAESAR, Julius (I15430)
 
4535 Smallpox CHURCHILL, John Marquess of Blandford (I17081)
 
4536 Smallpox WEBB, Christopher (I17147)
 
4537 Smith Hall Farm HALL, Frank (I16853)
 
4538 Smith Hall Farm HALL, William Stanley (I16865)
 
4539 Spa Fields, St. James' Church TURNPENNY, Sarah Elizabeth (I1814)
 
4540 Speaker of the House of Commons FINCH, Sir Heneage 2nd Earl of Aylesford, 2nd Baron of Guernsey (I15249)
 
4541 Spindletree HANSON, Annie (I1098)
 
4542 Spouse: Bathsheba Cofer (born Herring) Family: Abraham LINCOLN, I / Bathsheba (F3441)
 
4543 Spouse: John Lincoln, I Family: John LINCOLN / Rebekah FLOWERS (F3440)
 
4544 Spouse: Joseph Albee Family: Abraham T. TOURTILLOTTE, III / Phebe Phillips THORNTON (F3419)
 
4545 Spouse: Lt Col Thomas Anderson Family: Lt. Col. Thomas ANDERSON / Josephine D'ARCY (F3452)
 
4546 Spouse: Phebe Tourtellot (born Thornton) Family: Joseph ALBEE / Phebe Phillips THORNTON (F3421)
 
4547 St Bartholomew's Church Family: Thomas RUDHALL / Lucy SHAW (F1421)
 
4548 St Botolph by Billingsgate CARUTHERS, John Henry (I2465)
 
4549 St Botolph by Billingsgate CARUTHERS, Richard (I7924)
 
4550 St Botolph by Billingsgate EMERSON, Ann Bird (I8882)
 

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