Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet, (14 May 1838 – 20 July 1902) was a British Army officer and Hampshire landowner. Shelley was born in 1838, the second son of John Shelley (1806–1866) by his wife Elizabeth Bowen (died 1889). His paternal grandfather was Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet. On the death of a cousin, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, in 1889, his elder brother

Edward Shelley Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

(1827–1890) succeeded as 4th Baronet. Sir Edward died childless the following year, when Charles succeeded to the baronetcy. He served in the Scots Guards from 1855 to 1871, when he retired as a lieutenant-colonel. He lived at

Avington park Avington House is a 16th-century English country house which stands in Avington Park in the Itchen Valley near Winchester, Hampshire. It is a Grade I listed building. Originally a late 16th-century half-H house built by John Clerk it was substan ...

, near

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, which his father had purchased from the last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and was a well-known figure in Hampshire, where he was a

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(JP). He died on 20 July 1902.

Family

Shelley married, in 1869, Lady Mary Jane Jemima Stopford (1851–1937), daughter of the 5th Earl of Courtown. They had nine children, including the 6th, 7th and 8th baronets. His son Cecil William Charles Shelley died while serving with the Scots Guards during the First World War, on 17 October 1915.

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