Philip Charles Shelley Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley GCH

Royal Guelphic Order

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 (11 March 1800 – 4 March 1851) was a British Tory

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 politician.

Sidney was the only son of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet and Henrietta Hunloke. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 was his cousin. He was educated at Eton

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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. On 13 August 1825, he married Lady Sophia FitzClarence

Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley

Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley was the eldest daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom and his longtime mistress Dorothea Jordan.On 13 August 1825, she married Philip Sidney, later an M.P...

, illegitimate daughter of William IV

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 and Dorothy Jordan. Sidney represented Eye

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 in the House of Commons

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 from 1829 to 1831 and also served as an equerry

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 to his father-in-law from 1830 to 1835 and as Surveyor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall

Duchy of Cornwall

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 from 1833 to 1849. In 1835, fourteen years before he succeeded his father, he was raised to the peerage as Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, of Penshurst in the County of Kent.

Lord de L'Isle and Dudley died in March 1851, aged 50, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Philip Sidney.

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