MSS. relating to the Shelley family : settlement of the poet's estate with pedigree of the Shelley family : manuscript, [ca. 1818]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

MSS. relating to the Shelley family : settlement of the poet's estate with pedigree of the Shelley family : manuscript, [ca. 1818]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612749338

Copies of documents, 1791-1815 and undated, concerning Shelley family land and property, chiefly the estate of Sir Bysshe Shelley, eventually granted to his only son, Timothy, father of the poet Percy Bysshe, who is mentioned in some of the documents.

2 v. (339, 356 leaves) ; 34 cm.

Houghton Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7796622

Houghton Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Shelley, Timothy, Sir, 1753-1844

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62f8bv9 (person)

Father of the poet. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Field Place, to Mr. Child, 1839 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662121 ...

Hope, T. H.,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j74t6b (person)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x066zh (person)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Shelley family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v5068c (family)

Shelley, Bysshe, Sir, 1731-1815

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6514nv9 (person)