Shelley Baronets
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 (d. 1526). 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.
Read more about Shelley Baronets: Shelley of Michelgrove, Shelley of Castle Goring, Shelley of Penshurst Place, Shelley Baronets, of Michelgrove (1611), Shelley Baronets, of Castle Goring (1806), Shelley Sidney, Later Sidney Baronets, of Penshurst Place (1818), See Also
Famous quotes containing the word shelley:
“But pale despair and cold tranquillity,
Nature’s vast frame, the web of human things,
Birth and the grave, that are not as they were.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)