Percy Bysshe Shelley October. On 10December 1816 the body of Shelley's estranged wife Harriet was found in an advanced state of pregnancy, drowned in the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. Shelley had made generous provision for Harriet and their children in his will and had paid her a monthly allowance as had her father. It is thought that Harriet, who had left her children with her sister Eliza and had been living alone under the name of Harriet Smith, mistakenly believed herself to have been abandoned by her new lover, 36-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Maxwell, who had been deployed abroad, after a landlady
Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet Baronet Shelley, of Castle Goring, Sussex. He died in 1815 at the age of 83. Sir Bysshe was married twice; firstly on 30 June 1752 to Mary Catherine Michell (b. 1734 in Sussex, England), the daughter of Theobald and Mary Michell; and secondly to Elizabeth Jane Perry in 1769. Child from first marriage: Child from second marriage: Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring (21 June 1731 – 6 January 1815) was the grandfather of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was born in Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey (present-day United