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Robert Shirley was a British Member of Parliament.
The eleventh son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, Robert inherited the estate of Ettington and an equal share, with his three full brothers, in the family's lands in Ireland when his father died in 1717.
At the 1727 election, he was returned for Stamford on the Earl of Exeter's interest. A Tory, he resolutely opposed Robert Walpole's ministry, but did not stand again in 1734. He died in 1738, leaving Ettington to his next brother, George.
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