Sir Robert Shirley, 5th Baronet (1650–1717) was created 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley in 1677 and 1st Earl Ferrers in 1711.
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Nikolaus Pevsner (later Sir Nikolaus) described the view westwards across the lakes to Staunton Harold Hall and Holy Trinity parish church as "unsurpassed in the country – certainly as far as Englishness is concerned".
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The other branch led from Old Parks to Ticknall, with branches to the quarries between Calke Abbey and Staunton Harold.
Lount was the scene in 1760, of a death, by murder, of Earl Ferrer's steward, who had been shot, by Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, at the neighbouring village of Staunton Harold.