British Nobility, Theater Producer and Writer. He was the only child of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to survive to adulthood. He had an older sister who died at age one, an older brother who died at age three, and two older half-siblings by his father's first marriage to Harriet Westbrook. After his father's sudden death, he and his mother left Florence, Italy to return to England. There he attended a boarding school, Harrow School, and later Trinity College, Cambridge. Unlike his father, he had uneventful years while receiving his education. Upon his grandfather Sir Timothy Shelley's death, he became the 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring, Sussex in 1844. On June 22, 1848, he married the widow, Jane Gibson St. Johns; the couple had no children of their own but adopted Bessie Florence Gibson. His personality was very different from his liberal parents; as a conservative, he ran for a seat in parliament, but lost. Around the time of mother's death in 1851, he moved with Lady Shelley to recently renovated Boscombe Manor near Bournemouth, where he also built one of the most beautiful private theaters in England having walls that were lined with mural paintings. It could easily seat three hundred guests and was a place where he was able to write, produce and perform in his own plays. He was so involved with this project that he was even known to paint the scenery. To manage the financial needs of the project, the Shelley Theater Trust was established as an arts charity. His manor was one of the oldest properties in the area, which later became an art college, then the Shelley Museum. On June 30, 1985, the Bournemouth Borough Council installed a United Kingdom Historical Marker to honor of him at the entrance to his former home "Boscombe Manor", which is, since 2009, Shelley Manor Medical Center. "The Poet's Son", a caricature of him was done by Ape and published in Vanity Fair in 1879. The caption reads: "But he delights above all in yachting and in private theatricals, and is even now engaged in building a theatre for amateur performers". According to the magazine "Yachting World", he was a member of the most prestigious and exclusive Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. A two-volume collection of his parents' personal documents, "Shelley and Mary", was published several years after his mother's death. Lady Shelley edited the material, but he wrote the forward of this historical text, which was titled "An Essay on Christianity". Although Sir Shelley gained much fame from his parentage and their lineage, in his own right, he was known for his contributions to the world of theater in England.