Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet
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Sir John Shelley 4th Baronet (5 March 1692 – 6 September 1771) of Mitchelgrove, Sussex, was a British Whig politician who sat in the
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between 1727 and 1747. Shelley was the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet and his second wife Mary Gage, daughter of Sir John Gage, 4th Baronet, of
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, Sussex. He succeeded his father to the
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on 25 April 1703. He was a Roman Catholic, who conformed to Anglicanism in 1716. He married Catherine Scawen, daughter of Sir Thomas Scawen of Horton, Buckinghamshire on 21 May 1717. She died in September 1726 and he married as his second wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of
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MP of Laughton, on 16 March 1727. Her brother was
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. Shelley was elected Member of Parliament for
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at the 1727 general election. He supported the Government consistently throughout his parliamentary career. He was returned unopposed for Arundel at the 1734 general election but lost the seat in
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. His brother-in-law, the Duke of Newcastle brought him in as MP for
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at a by-election on 6 December 1743. His wife sought an official post for her husband from her brother but nothing materialized. Questions were raised about his private life and he was dropped at the 1747 general election. Shelley died on 6 September 1771. He had two daughters by his first wife, and a son and two daughters by his second wife. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son
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. Henrietta, one of his daughters by his second wife Margaret, married George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow.


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