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The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

The Kirkland papers, 1753-1869 : the Ferrers murder and the lives and times of a medical family in Ashby-de-la-Zouch / Arthur Crane.

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Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers

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The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.

The Kirkland papers, 1753-1869 : the Ferrers murder and the lives and times of a medical family in Ashby-de-la-Zouch / Arthur Crane.