The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Ilchester and Strangways (1741), Baron Redlynch (1747) and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale (1747), all in the Peerage of Great Britain.
Earl of Ilchester is a title created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1756.
The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Ilchester and Strangways (1741), Baron Redlynch (1747) and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale (1747), all in the Peerage of Great Britain.
The Heir Presumptive is the 10th Earl's son the Hon.
Earl (or Earl's) Shilton, one of the largest villages in the county, consists chiefly of one long street, on the high road from Leicester to Hinckley, 9 miles S.W. by W of the former and 4 N.E. by N of the latter.
Earl Shilton township, which is in Kirby Mallory Civil Parish, Sparkenhoe Hundred, but Hinckley Union and County Court District, was constituted an ecclesiastical district in 1854, and in 1871 contained 2053 persons, living in 477 houses on 920 acres of land.
Quoting the Rev. F.E. Tower's "History of Earl's Shilton "(1894) "This village is called Shilton, otherwise Shulton, otherwise Schelton, otherwise Earles Shilton as written in an apprentice indenture of 1698, and otherwise as Earl's Shilton, as written by Nichols, the County historian (1811).
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