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Andrew Shirley                                       1900-1958
Andrew was born on 29 December 1900, the son of Sir Walter Knight Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers and Mary Jane Moon.

Ethel Muriel Lewis                                 1898-                         (1st Wife)
Ethel was born about 1898, the daughter of John Henry David Ellis Lewis and Harriett Ann Harris, at Oxford.
I have identified the following children.
  Mary Teresa Born 2 Dec 1927   Headington, Oxfordshire  

Birth of Parents
Andrew Shirley b: 29 Dec 1900         London       1901 1Q Kensington 1a 113
son of Sir Walter Knight Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers and Mary Jane Moon

Ethel Muriel Lewis b: abt 1898         Oxfordshire       1898 2Q Oxford 3a 889
daughter of John Henry David Ellis Lewis and Harriett Ann Harris

Marriage
30 Apr 1927
Andrew Shirley
Ethel M. Lewis 		Oxfordshire       1927 2Q Headington 3a 2604

Children
Mary Teresa Shirley b: 2 Dec 1927           Oxfordshire           1928 1Q Headington 3a 1673
daughter of Andrew Shirley and Ethel Muriel Lewis

This marriage ended in divorce


Olive Mary Dunn                                    1899-1958           (2nd Wife)
Olive was born on 6 April 1899, the daughter of Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn and Helen Matilda Malcolmson, at Hadley, Hertfordshire.
She was an author, writing under the name Mary Dunn, she wrote for Punch magazine, and later a series of books based on the character Lady Addle. Much of her writing was fairly bland, undemanding humour which you might wearily leaf through in a waiting-room. Lady Addle, however, was almost always sharp and cutting. All the characters are consumed by their own complacency and self-importance. Secure in their supremacy they know that nothing is too much trouble for other people.
I have identified the following children.
Jane D. Born abt 1936   London

Birth of New Wife
Olive Mary Dunn b: 6 Apr 1899               Hadley, Hertfordshire       1899 2Q Barnet 3a 299
daughter of Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn and Helen Matilda Malcolmson

Marriage
abt 1932
Andrew Shirley
Olive Mary Dunn 		Madrid, Spain

Children
Jane D. Shirley b: abt 1936               London       1936 4Q Marylebone 1a 567
daughter of Andrew Shirley and Olive Mary Dunn

Death
Olive Mary Shirley Died 11 Mar 1958, Age 57,       1958 1Q Windsor 6a 246

The Times, Thursday, Mar 11, 1958                   DEATHS
  SHIRLEY, - On March 11, 1958, after a brief illness, Olive Mary Shirley (Mary Dunn) of Parkhill Cottage, Beaconsfield. Funeral Beaconsfield Parish Church To-morrow (Friday) at 2:30 P.M. No mourning, no letters please. Flowers To Edward Tilbury, Beaconsfield.
LONDON   1 July 1958                         Probate
SHIRLEY or DUNN, Olive Mary or SHIRLEY, Mary, of Park Hill Cottage, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, died 11 March 1958, at King Edward VII Hospital, Clewer Within Windsor, Probate London 1 July, to Robert Charles Salt Beecroft, solicitor.   Effects £23,562 10s. 5d.

Death
Andrew Shirley Died 20 Jun 1958, Age 57,       1958 2Q Pancras 5d 405

The Times, Saturday, Jun 21, 1958                       DEATHS
  SHIRLEY - On June 20, 1958, peacefully, the Hon. Andrew Shirley, of Park Hill Cottage, Beaconsfield.   Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, at Beaconsfield Parish Church.   No letters, please.
LONDON   19 Aug 1958                         Probate
SHIRLEY the honourable Andrew, of Park Hill Cottage, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, died 20 June 1958, at The University College Hospital, London W.C.1, Probate London 19 August, to Robert Charles Salt Beecroft, solicitor and Esmond Dunn Boldero, captain H.M. army.   Effects £11,212 1s. 5d.

The Times, Saturday, Jun 21, 1958                 OBITUARIES
THE HON. ANDREW SHIRLEY

  The Hon. Andrew Shirley, formerly manager of the Times Book Company, died yesterday at the age of 57.
  Second son of the eleventh Earl Ferrers, he was born in London on December 29, 1900.   He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and from 1925 to 1929 was assistant keeper of the Fine Art Department at the Ashmolean Museum.   Subsequently he was with Harrod's Library.
  Shirley made a special study of the British school of painting, of the work of Constable in particular.   In 1930 there appeared his The Published Mezzotints of Lucas after Constable, and in 1937 a revised and enlarged edition of C. R. Leslie's Life of Constable, originally published in in 1842.   During the Second World War the remaining text of Shirley's edition was destroyed by
enemy action, but a few hundred sets of plates survived, and it was thought advisable to make them, with some additions, available to students and lovers of Constable's work, and in 1944 they, with a new text by Shirley himself, were published by the Medici Society under the title of John Constable, R.A.
  Under the title of Constable and his Friends Shirley returned to the artist in a book designed to show how the events of Constable's private life are mirrored in his painting, and also to discuss the part played by Constable in the development of nineteenth-century painting.   The Lion and the Lily, which was published in 1956, described a journey through some former English provences in western France.   The journey was undertaken after Shirley had read Perroy's The History of the Hundred Years War and had decided to see for himself the dominions held in France by Henry II and Edward III