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Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring (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. His middle name, possibly suggested by his father's friend Sophia Stacey, came from ...
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet. b. 12 Nov 1819 Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italy d. 5 Dec 1889
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) poet Mary Shelley (1797-1851) author of Frankenstein. Sir Percy Florence Shelley 3rd Baronet (1819-1889) Jane Gibson.
His wife was the novelist Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Their only surviving son, Percy Florence Shelley (1819-1889), was born in Italy. He studied at Cambridge and upon the death of his grandfather became Sir Percy, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring, Sussex. He married Lady Jane Gibson (d. 1899) in 1848.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence ...
Shelley was born in Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey (present-day United States) on 21 June 1731. [1] He became rich and influential due to a combination of marriages to women from other influential families and his own family's wealth. [2] In the 1790s, following the death of his second wife, he built a magnificent country house ...
