Viscount de L'Isle - Shelley-Sidney Baronets, of Penshurst Place (1818)

Shelley-Sidney Baronets, of Penshurst Place (1818)

• Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet (18 December 1771–14 March 1849). Born John Shelley, he was the only son of the second marriage of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet, of Castle Goring (see Shelley Baronets for earlier history of the family) by Elizabeth Jane, daughter of William Perry and Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the Hon. Thomas Sidney, fourth son of Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester. In 1799 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Sidney on succeeding to the estates, including Penshurst Place in Kent, of his maternal grandmother. In 1818 he was created a Baronet, of Penshurst in the County of Kent, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Shelley-Sidney married Henrietta, daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke, 4th Baronet, in 1799. Their daughter Emma married William Wakefield. Lady Shelly-Sidney died in February 1811. Shelley-Sidney remained a widower until his death in March 1849, aged 77. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Philip, who had already been elevated to the peerage as Baron De L'Isle and Dudley.

• Sir Philip Sidney, 2nd Baronet (1800–1851) (created Baron De L'Isle and Dudley in 1835)