Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 – 1822

Shelley was born on August 4, 1972, at Field Place near Horsham in Sussex the oldest of 7 children, of whom the next 5 were girls. His father was a baronet and Whig Member of Parliament. After two years at the Syon Academy in London, at the age of 11, he was sent to Eton, where…