Henry Shirley

Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet (1589–1633), landowner and local politician, was born in January 1589 at Somerton, Oxfordshire, the eldest child of Sir George Shirley. According to the memoir of his younger brother Sir Thomas Shirley, he attended Oxford University, but no record of this has been found. He then travelled abroad before joining the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. In May 1615 he married Lady Dorothy Devereux, the daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.