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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.
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)
Upon the death of Sir Timothy, Percy Florence Shelley became the third Baronet. He died childless and the title passed to his first cousin, Edward Shelley, who then became the fourth Baronet. [1]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) poet is the parent of Shelley, Sir Percy Florence (1819-1889), 3rd Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, the first of seven children born to Timothy Shelley, a country squire who became a baronet in 1815 upon the death of his father, Sir Bysshe Shelley.
Sep 10, 2022 · Sir Percy Florence "3rd Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring" Shelley Bt JP DL. Born 12 Nov 1819 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Ancestors. Son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley. Brother of Eliza Ianthe (Shelley) Esdaile [half], Charles Bysshe Shelley [half], William Shelley and Clara Shelley.
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
