| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Earl Ferrers | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Start: | 1937 |
| Term End: | 11 October 1954 |
| Predecessor: | Walter Knight Shirley |
| Successor: | Robert Washington Shirley |
| Birth Name: | Robert Walter Shirley |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1894 |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Children: | Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers |
| Parents: | Walter Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers Mary Jane Moon |
| Nationality: | British |
Robert Walter Shirley, 12th Earl Ferrers (7 July 1894 – 11 October 1954), was a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer.
Lord Ferrers was born in 1894, the elder son Walter Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers and his wife Mary Jane Moon. He succeeded to the earldom and became a member of the House of Lords upon the death of his father in 1937.[1]
Lord Ferrers married Hermione Justice Morley on 28 February 1922. They had three children:
Lord Ferrers died on 11 October 1954 at the age of 60. He was succeeded in the earldom by his only son, Robert.