Walter Knight Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers FRIBA (5 June 1864 – 2 February 1937) was a British architect and hereditary peer.
Ferrers was the second but only surviving son of Rev Walter Waddington Shirley (d. 1866) and his wife Philippa Knight.
He was born at Christ Church, Oxford where his father was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and canon.
[1] Ferrers entered the profession of architecture and was articled to Basil Champneys.
They had had five children:[1][6] Lord Ferrers died at the family seat, Staunton Harold Hall, in 1937 at the age of 72 and was succeeded in the earldom by his elder son, Robert.