Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet 1731-1815

In 1728 [his father] Timothy Shelley [aged 27] and [his mother] Johanna Plume [aged 24] were married.

On 21st June 1731 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet was born to Timothy Shelley [aged 31] and Johanna Plume [aged 27] in Newark, New Jersey.

On 30th June 1752 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 21] and Mary Catherine Michell [aged 18] were married.

On 7th September 1753 [his son] Timothy Shelley 2nd Baronet was born to Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 22] and [his wife] Mary Catherine Michell [aged 19]. He married October 1791 Elizabeth Pilfold and had issue.

Before 17th August 1769 [his wife] Mary Catherine Michell [aged 35] died.

On 17th August 1769 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 38] and Elizabeth Jane Perry were married.

On 11th March 1770 [his father] Timothy Shelley [aged 69] died.

In 1771 [his son] John Shelley-Sidney 1st Baronet was born to Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 39] and [his wife] Elizabeth Jane Perry. He married before 11th March 1800 Henrietta Hunloke, daughter of Henry Hunloke 4th Baronet and Margaret Coke Lady Hunloke, and had issue.

In October 1791 [his son] Timothy Shelley 2nd Baronet [aged 38] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Pilfold were married.

Before 11th March 1800 [his son] John Shelley-Sidney 1st Baronet [aged 29] and [his daughter-in-law] Henrietta Hunloke [aged 16] were married.

In 1806 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 74] was created 1st Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring in Sussex.

The London Gazette 15892. Whitehall, February 25, 1806.

The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and lreland to the following Gentlemen, and the respective Heirs Male of their Bodies lawfully begotten.

Charles Hastings [aged 53], of Willesley-Hall, in the County of Leicester, Esq; Lieutenant-General of His Majesties Forces.

Bysshe Shelley [aged 74], of Castle Goring, in the County of Sussex, Esq.

Montagu Cholmeley [aged 33], of Easton, in the County of Lincoln, Esq.

Thomas Sutton [aged 51], of Molesey in the County of Surrey, Esq.

On 6th January 1815 Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet [aged 83] died. His son Timothy [aged 61] succeeded 2nd Baronet Shelley of Castle Goring in Sussex.

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. In May 1816 the pair [Bysshe Shelley 1st Baronet and [his granddaughter-in-law] Mary Godwin aka Shelley [aged 18]] left England for Switzerland, together with Miss Clairmont [aged 18], and their own infant son William. They went straight to Sécheron, near Geneva; Byron [aged 28], whose separation from his wife had just then taken place, arrived there immediately afterwards. A great deal of controversy has arisen as to the motives and incidents of this foreign sojourn. The clear fact is that Miss Clairmont, who had a fine voice and some inclination for the stage, had seen Byron, as connected with the management of Drury Lane theatre, early in the year, and an amorous intrigue had begun between them in London. Prima facie it seems quite reasonable to suppose that she had explained the facts to Shelley or to Mary, or to both, and had induced them to convoy her to the society of Byron abroad; were this finally established as the fact, it would show no inconsistency of conduct, or breach of his own code of sexual morals, on Shelley's part. On the other hand, documentary evidence exists showing that Mary was totally ignorant of the amour shortly before they went abroad. Whether or not they knew of it while they and Claire were in daily intercourse with Byron, and housed close by him on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, may be left unargued. The three returned to London in September 1816, Byron remaining abroad; and in January 1817 Miss Clairmont gave birth to his daughter named Allegra.