Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet
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Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring (21 June 1731 - 6 January 1815) was the grandfather of Romantic
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
, New Jersey
(present day USA
) on June 21, 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.
) in 1769.
Child from first marriage:
Child from second marriage:
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
.
Life
Shelley was born in NewarkNewark, New Jersey
Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
(present day USA
United States
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) on June 21, 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
Castle Goring
Castle Goring is a grade one listed country house in Worthing, in Sussex, England.The building to some extent defies categorisation, being neither fully a castle, nor is it fully in Goring. The word is often used for English country houses constructed after the castle-building era and not...
, which he intended to be the family seat
Family seat
A seat or family seat is the principal residence of a family. The residence usually denotes the social, economic, political, or historic connection of the family within a given area. Some families took their dynasty name from their family seat , or named their family seat after their own dynasty...
. 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, to Mary Catherine Michell on 30 June 1752, and secondly to Elizabeth Jane Perry (a descendant of King Henry VIIHenry VII of England
Henry VII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor....
) in 1769.
Child from first marriage:
- Timothy ShelleyTimothy ShelleySir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring MA was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley.-Early life and education:...
(7 September 1753-24 April 1844); later Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring
Child from second marriage:
- John Shelley Sidney (18 December 1771-14 March 1849); later Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet of Penshurst Place