Percy Florence Shelley Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood left him as the only surviving child as his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822. His parents lived in Italy for several years, until his father drowned off Livorno, whereupon his mother moved back to England with him. Mary Shelley never remarried; Percy Florence had no further siblings. He joined Harrow School in 1832, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1837. Shelley inherited
Edward Bysshe (writer) the same year there appeared a translation by Bysshe of Xenophon's "Memorabilia", which was dedicated to John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham, and was reissued in 1758. Bysshe was not involved by name in the 1715 edition of further works by Bulstrode, and that has been taken as an indication that he had died by that date. Edward Bysshe (writer) Edward Bysshe (fl. 1712) was an English writer, remembered for his popular guide "The Art of Poetry" from 1702. While not respectable as a manual on verse-writing, it was used by leading authors. Bysshe's background is unclear. The "Oxford Dictionary