Ferrers, LAWRENCE SHIRLEY, EARL

Ferrers, LAWRENCE SHIRLEY, EARL, the last nobleman who died a felon's death in England, was born in August 1720, and succeeded to the peerage as fourth earl in 1745. He was subject to ungovernable paroxysms of passion, in the fury of one of which he killed his old land-steward in January 1760, for which, being tried by his peers in Westminster Hall, he was hanged at Tyburn on the 5th May following.