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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. His middle name, possibly suggested by ...
Shelley | Sir | Bysshe | 1731-1815 | 1st Baronet (Person) Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer (Person) Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet (Person) Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet (Person) Shelley | Timothy | 1753-1844 | Sir | 2nd Baronet and MP (Person)
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet (1819–1889) [1] Sir Edward Shelley, 4th Baronet (1827–1890) [1] Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet (1838–1902) [2] Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Baronet (1871–1951) [3] Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, 7th Baronet (1872–1953) [4] Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet (1880–1965).
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle is one of the world’s leading repositories for the study of British Romanticism. Comprised of over 20,000 items, the collection is conceptually centered on the life and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friends, relatives, and contemporaries.
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Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-1889) was the only surviving child of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley née Godwin (1797-1851). He became the 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring on the death of his grandfather, Sir Timothy Shelley (1753-1844), the 2nd Baronet.
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.
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, third Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. The Percy Florence Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include two holograph poems, "Giovanni at Putney" and "Song of Venus to the Ground Shark."
