Links for general interest.  Please let us know if you would like us to link to you.

History & family

• Ditchingham Hall – Grade I Listing
• Ditchingham Hall in the “Domesday Reloaded” project
• Carr family papers stored in the National Archives
• A history of the title of Earl Ferrers
• The Shirley Association
• The Earl Ferrers pub in Streatham is named after the legendary 4th Earl Ferrers, the last Lord to be hanged in England  – you can read an account of his trial here and a full account of his execution from the Tamworth Herald

The 13th Earl Ferrers

• Portraits of the 13th Earl Ferrers at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• A summary of all the 13th Earl’s parliamentary contributions can be found here on Theyworkforyou
• Whatever Next?: Reminiscences of a journey through life – the memoirs of the 13th Earl Ferrers, reviewed in The Daily Mail, 25 June 2011
• Obituaries of the 13th Earl Ferrers in The Telegraph, 13th November 2012; The New Statesman, 13th November 2012; The Times, 14th November 2012; The Guardian, 18th November 2012
• An account of the 13th Earl’s funeral service at Norwich Cathedral in the Norwich Evening News, 26th November 2012 – with pictures from the Eastern Daily Press

Local interest

• A good account of the history of Ditchingham as a village
• H. Rider Haggard farmed at Ditchingham – not on the Estate, but close by – for many years. He used his experiences to write a noted farming manual, A Farmer’s Year, 1899; this was followed by a second book, Rural England, 1902 – original review in The Spectator, 14th February, 1903