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See also:FERRERS, LAURENCE See also:SHIRLEY, 4TH See also:EARL (1720-1760) , the last nobleman in See also:England to suffer a felon's See also:death, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:August 1720. There was See also:insanity in his See also:family, and from an See also:early See also:age his behaviour seems to have been See also:eccentric, and his See also:temper violent, though he was quite capable of managing his business affairs. In 1758 his wife obtained a separation from him for See also:cruelty. The Ferrers estates were then vested in trustees, the Earl Ferrers secured the See also:appointment of an old family steward, See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, as See also:receiver of rents. This See also:man faith-fully performed his See also:duty as a servant to the trustees, and did not prove amenable to Ferrer's See also:personal wishes. On the 18th of See also:January 176o, Johnson called at the earl's See also:mansion at See also:Staunton Harold, See also:Leicestershire, by appointment, and was directed to his lordship's study. Here, after some business conversation, See also:Lord Ferrers shot him. In the following See also:April Ferrers was tried for See also:murder by his peers in See also:Westminster See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall. His See also:defence, which he conducted in See also:person with See also:great ability,'was a plea of insanity, and it was supported by considerable See also:evidence, but he was found guilty. He subsequently said that he had only pleaded insanity to oblige his family, and that he had himself always been ashamed of such a defence. On the 5th of May 176o, dressed in a See also:light-coloured suit, embroidered with See also:silver, he was taken in his own See also:carriage from the See also:Tower of See also:London to See also:Tyburn and there hanged. It has been said that as a concession to his See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order the rope used was of See also:silk.
See See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Burke, Celebrated Trials connected with the See also:Aristocracy in the Relations of Private See also:Life (London, 1849) ; See also:Edward See also:Watford, Tales of our Great Families (London, 1877) ; See also:Howell's See also:State Trials (1816), xix. 885-980.
End of Article: FERRERS, LAURENCE SHIRLEY, 4TH EARL (1720-1760)
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