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in almost any direction. He possessed a wonderful memory, 
an infinite capacity for taking pains, and a facility for literary 
expression, attributes in which he resembled his celebrated 
uncle, the Poet. In youth he strongly resembled the Poet 
in personal appearance, a fact imparted to the present 
writer, nearly fifty years ago, by one who remembered to 
have seen the young poet at Field Place. To the last hour 
of his life Captain Shelley was distinguished by that inborn 
gentleness, modesty, and courteous bearing which constitute, 
in the highest sense, the well-born gentleman. It was the 
same quality in the persecuted poet which, after Shelley’s 
death, evoked the verdict of Byron, and the same may be 
said with equal truth of his nephew: Shelley ’’—said 
Byron—was, in every situation in life, always the perfect 
gentleman.” 
Captain Shelley was for many years well known as a first- 
rate pigeon-shot. We once heard him playfully remark, 
“I shew my love for dicky-birds by killing them ! ” As a 
pigeon-shot he won many trophies at Iiurlingham, at the 
Gun Club, and at Monte Carlo. 
In 1889, Captain Shelley married Janet, daughter of the 
late Mr. E. Andrewes, who, with two sons and a daughter, 
survives him. B. Edgcumbe. 
Appendix. 
List of the late Captain Shelley’s principal Publications. 
1870. 
The Ibis. 
Letter on Planus cceruleus, p. 149. 
Description of Two new Birds from Egypt, p. 445. 
1871. 
The Ibis. 
Contributions to the Ornithology- of Egypt, pp. 38, 131, 309. 
1872. 
The Ibis. 
With T. E. Buckley. 
Two months’ Bird-collecting on the Gold Coast, p. 281. 
A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt. 
