Shelley is a given name and surname. In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "meadow’s edge" or "clearing on a bank". It is Old English in origin. As with many other names, Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male. It is commonly used as a nickname for Michelle. Shelley is also a transferred surname used by those in Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire, particularly in settlements where a wood/clearing was beside a ledge or hillside. Shelly is a common alternative spelling. It is featured in tile on the ceiling of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Sir Robert Shaw, 1st Baronet of Bushy Park, Dublin was a Tory UK Member of Parliament who represented Dublin City from 1804 to 1826.
Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet was a British Tory politician.
There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Shelley family, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The three recipients of the titles represented two different branches of the family with a common ancestor in John Shelley of Michelgrove. The most famous member of the family is the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, although he never held any title. The holders of the third and last creation were later elevated to the peerage as Baron De L'Isle and Dudley and Viscount De L'Isle.
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Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet was the grandfather of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet, 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 the city of his birth, Florence in Italy. He had two elder half-siblings, by his father's first marriage to Harriet Westbrook, and three full siblings who died in infancy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British writer who is considered 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 on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, 3rd Baronet was an English Conservative politician, who represented the seat of New Shoreham for fifty-six years, becoming Father of the House of Commons.
Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet was an English Tory landowner and politician.
Sir William Curtis, Bt. was an English businessman, banker and politician. Although he had a long political and business career, he was probably best known for the banquets he hosted.
Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet, KH of Dunninald Castle, Scotland, was a Scottish Tory politician.
Vice-Admiral Sir George Richard Brooke-Pechell, 4th Baronet, born George Richard Pechell, was a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton for 25 years.
Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory, 3rd Baronet, born Glynne Earle Welby, was a British Tory Member of Parliament.
Sir William Geary, 2nd Baronet was an English Tory politician from West Peckham in Kent. He sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1818.
Sir James Martin Lloyd, 1st Baronet was a Sussex landowner, militia officer and long-serving Member of Parliament, who was created a baronet but left no son to inherit the title.
Charles George Beauclerk was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Richmond from 1796 to 1798.
Bysshe is a surname sometimes used as a given name. It has been said that it is a variation of the surname Bush.
Field Place is a Grade I listed house in Warnham, West Sussex, England. It is the birthplace of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, born there in 1792.
