Timothy Shelley

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix =Sir

| name = Timothy Shelley

| image = Portrait of Sir Timothy Shelley.jpg

| caption = Portrait by George Romney (1791)

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1753|09|07}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1844|04|24|1753|09|07}}

| spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Pilfold|1791}}

| children = 7; including Percy

| parents = Sir Bysshe Shelley
Mary Catherine Mitchell

| alma_mater = University College, Oxford

| office = Member of Parliament
for New Shoreham

| term_start = 1802

| term_end = 1818

| alongside =
Sir Cecil Bisshopp (1802–1806)
Sir Charles Burrell (1806–1818)

| predecessor = Sir Cecil Bisshopp
Charles William Wyndham

| successor = Sir Charles Burrell
Sir James Lloyd

| office1 = Member of Parliament
for Horsham

| term_start1 = 1790

| term_end1 = 1792

| alongside1 = Wilson Gale-Braddyll

| predecessor1 = Jeremiah Crutchley
Philip Metcalfe

| successor1 = Lord William Gordon
James Baillie

}}

Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844) was an English politician and lawyer. He was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet, and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Early life and education

Timothy Shelley was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Catherine Michell (1734–1760), daughter of the Reverend Theobald Michell and his wife Mary Tredcroft.[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=FS1EnglandBirthsandChristenings&h=166171846&tid=4232135&pid=290091588106&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fMG48&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=1351 Baptism Record of Katherine Michell.] Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538–1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Paid subscription site. Retrieved May 2017. He studied at University College, Oxford, and was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1778, his master's degree following in 1781.{{alox2|title=Shelley, (Sir) Timothy (Bart.)}} He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn.[http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Shelley.htm A Biographical Sketch by blupete: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)]

Career

Shelley was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for Horsham, Sussex, at the 1790 general election,{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor= Craig, F. W. S.

|editor-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=The Parliaments of England

|orig-year=1844–1850

|edition= 2nd

|year=1973

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-13-2

}}{{Rayment-hc|h||date=March 2012}} but an election petition was lodged and the result was overturned on 19 March 1792. He was elected as MP for New Shoreham at the 1802 general election.Stooks Smith, p. 350. Shelley was re-elected for Shoreham in 1806, 1807, and 1812, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1818 general election.{{Rayment-hc|n|2|date=March 2012}}

He associated with the Duke of Norfolk during his time in the British political sphere.

Personal life

Shelley married Elizabeth Pilfold in October 1791 and they moved to Field Place in Warnham, West Sussex, approximately {{convert|40|mi}} outside London. The couple had seven children:

Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), English Romantic poet
Elizabeth (1794–1831)
Hellen (1796–1796)
Mary (1797–1884)
Hellen (1799–1885)
Margaret (1801–1887)
John (1806–1866)

None of Shelley's daughters married except for Mary, who in 1819 married D. F. Haynes.[http://www.thepeerage.com/p3897.htm#i38961 thePeerage.com – Person Page 3897]