Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet

Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet (18 March 1808 – 28 January 1867)[1] was an English Tory landowner and politician.

Maresfield Park c. 1850

He was born the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet and educated at Charterhouse School.

He joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1825 as an ensign and rose to lieutenant in 1828. He transferred as a lieutenant to the 20th Foot in 1830, went onto half-pay with the 60th Foot in 1831 and retired in 1832. He served as lieutenant-colonel of the 46th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers from 1861 to his death.

He was elected at the 1830 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Gatton[2] in Surrey, then at the 1831 general election as an MP for Great Grimsby,[3] but did not contest the seat at the 1832 general election.[3]

He did not stand again until he unsuccessfully contested the 1841 general election in East Sussex.[4] On the death of the 6th Baronet on 28 March 1852 he became the 7th Baronet Shelley of Michelgrove, inheriting Maresfield Park in Sussex.[1]

Shelley returned to the Commons after a twenty-year absence when he was elected at the 1852 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster,[5] where he was re-elected in 1857 and 1859. He did not stand again in Westminster at the 1865 general election, when he contested Bridgwater, but without success.[6]

He died of gout in 1867. He had married in 1832 Louisa, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Johnes Knight of Henley Hall, Shropshire. They had an only daughter, Blanche. The baronetcy passed to his younger brother Frederic, although he bequeathed Maresfield Hall to Blanche, who went on to marry Hervey Charles Pechell in 1874 and never took up residence.

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
  2. Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 547. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
  3. Stooks Smith, page 202
  4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 470. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. Craig, pages 20–21
  6. Craig, page 61
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Joseph Neeld
Michael Prendergast
Member of Parliament for Gatton
18301831
With: John Thomas Hope
Succeeded by
Viscount Pollington
Anthony John Ashley
Preceded by
Charles Wood
George Harris
Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby
18311832
With: George Harris
Succeeded by
Henry Fitzroy
Lord Loughborough
Preceded by
Charles Lushington
De Lacy Evans
Member of Parliament for Westminster
1852–1865
With: De Lacy Evans 1846–1865
Succeeded by
Hon. Robert Grosvenor
John Stuart Mill
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Shelley
Baronet
(of Michelgrove)
1852–1867
Succeeded by
Frederic Shelley


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