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Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet, JP, DL (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889), was the son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist and author of Frankenstein. He was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to live beyond infancy.
When he died the title passed to his younger brother, Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, the seventh Baronet. On Sir Percy's death in 1965 this line of the family failed and the baronetcy was inherited by the late Baronet's kinsman, William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle , who became the 9th Baronet of Castle Goring as well.
The three recipients of the titles represented two different branches of the family with a common ancestor in John Shelley of Michelgrove (died 1526). Although he never held any title, the most famous member of the family is the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley baronets of Michelgrove (1611) Shelley baronets of Castle Goring (1806)
Sir Bysshe was married twice; firstly on 30 June 1752 [4] to Mary Catherine Michell (b. 1734 in Sussex, England), the daughter of Theobald and Mary Michell; [5] and secondly to Elizabeth Jane Perry on 17 August 1769. [6] Child from first marriage: Timothy Shelley (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844); later Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet
Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet; Sir Sidney Shelley, 8th Baronet; Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet; Timothy Shelley This page was last edited on 16 December 2020 ...
Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, Warnham, Sussex, England. [13] [14] He was the eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring (1753–1844), a Whig Member of Parliament for Horsham from 1790 to 1792 and for Shoreham between 1806 and 1812, and his wife, Elizabeth Pilfold (1763–1846), the daughter of a successful butcher. [15]
Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger (1 April 1872 – 23 May 1917) was a British peer and military officer. Scarlett was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and a great-grandson of the 1st Baron Abinger. His mother had been adopted by Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, son of Mary and Percy Bysshe ...
Scarlett was also chairman of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, his grandmother having been adopted by Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, the son of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley. [2] The Boscombe Collection of Shelley's letters and manuscripts, which Scarlett worked on cataloguing, are now held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.