Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet


Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring was the grandfather of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Life

Shelley was born in Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey on 21 June 1731. He became rich and influential due to a combination of marriages to women from other influential families and his own family's wealth. In the 1790s, following the death of his second wife, he built a magnificent country house, Castle Goring, which he intended to be the family seat. He was created 1st Baronet Shelley, of Castle Goring, Sussex. He died in 1815 at the age of 83.

Personal life

Sir Bysshe was married twice; firstly on 30 June 1752 to Mary Catherine Michell, the daughter of Theobald and Mary Michell; and secondly to Elizabeth Jane Perry on 17 August 1769.
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