Sidney Patrick Shelley


Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet of Castle Goring was an English professional soldier.
A great-nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley was born to Lt. Col. Sir Charles Shelley, 5th Baronet and Lady Mary Jane Jemima Shelley, daughter of 5th Earl of Courtown. He was educated at Wellington College. As a soldier he served in the Second Boer War, and in World War I as Captain in the Hampshire Yeomanry.