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

Philip Charles Shelley Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, GCH (11 March 1800 – 4 March 1851), was a British Tory politician.

The Right Honourable The Lord De L'Isle and Dudley GCH
Member of Parliament for Eye
In office 19 October 1829 – 14 March 1831 Serving with Sir Edward Kerrison
Preceded by	Sir Miles Nightingall Sir Edward Kerrison
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Kerrison William Burge
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office 13 January 1835 – 4 March 1851
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Personal details
Born	Philip Charles Shelley Sidney (1800-03-11)11 March 1800
Died	4 March 1851(1851-03-04) (aged 50)
Political party	Tory
Spouse	Lady Sophia FitzClarence ​ ​ (m. 1825; died 1837)​
Children	The Hon. Adelaide FitzClarence-Hunloke The Hon. Ernestine Perceval Countess Sophia von Kielmansegg Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Parent(s)	Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet Henrietta Hunloke
Relatives	William IV (father-in-law)
Alma mater	Eton College Christ Church, Oxford

Early life

Sidney was the only son of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet, and Henrietta Hunloke. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was his first cousin. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Marriage and issue

On 13 August 1825, he married Lady Sophia FitzClarence, illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress, the actress Dorothea Jordan. Lord and Lady De L'Isle and Dudley had four children:

• Hon. Adelaide Augusta Wilhelmina Sidney (1 June 1826 – 20 September 1904). Married her first cousin, Hon. Frederick FitzClarence-Hunloke (son of George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster), in 1856; no issue.
• Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (28 January 1828 – 17 February 1898). Married firstly to Mary Foulis in 1850; had issue. Married secondly to Emily Frances Ramsay in 1893; no issue.
• Hon. Ernestine Wellington Sidney (9 January 1934 – 20 September 1910). Married to Philip Perceval in 1868; had issue.
• Hon. Sophia Philippa Sidney (11 March 1837 – 12 May 1907). Married to Count Alexander von Kielmansegg in 1871; no issue.

Career

Sidney represented Eye in the House of Commons from 1829 to 1831 and also served as an equerry to his father-in-law from 1830 to 1835 and as Surveyor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall 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.

Death

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

External links

• "De L'Isle and Dudley, Lord [Philip Charles] (formerly Shelley-Sidney) (D835CS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord De L'Isle and Dudley