The Stately Homes of EnglandJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The Stately Homes of England
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Historic buildings -- England
Mrs. Perry-Sidney had an only son, Algernon Perry-Sidney, who died
during her lifetime, but left two daughters, his and her co-heiresses,
to the elder of whom, Elizabeth, who was married to Bysshe Shelley,
Esq., Penshurst passed. Their son, Sir John Shelley Sidney, Bart.,
inherited Penshurst and the manors and estates in Kent; he was created
a baronet in 1818. He was succeeded as second baronet by his son, Sir
Philip Charles Sidney, D.C.L., G.C.H., &c., who was an equerry to
the king. He was born in 1800, and in 1825 married the Lady Sophia
Fitzclarence, one of the daughters of his Majesty King William IV. and
Mrs. Jordan, and sister to the Earl of Munster. In 1835 he was raised
to the peerage by William IV., by the title of Baron de L’Isle and
Dudley. By his wife, the Lady Sophia Fitzclarence (who died in 1837),
his lordship had issue one son, the present peer, and three daughters,
the Honourable Adelaide Augusta Wilhelmina, married to her cousin, the
Honourable Frederick Charles George Fitzclarence (who has assumed the
name of Hunlocke), son of the first Earl of Munster; the Honourable
Ernestine Wellington, married to Philip Percival, Esq.; and the
Honourable Sophia Philippa.
The present noble owner of Penshurst, Philip Sidney, second Baron de
L’Isle and Dudley, and a baronet, was born in 1828. He was educated
at Eton, and was an officer in the Royal Horse Guards. He is a
Deputy-Lieutenant of Kent and of Yorkshire, and Hereditary Visitor
of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. His lordship, who succeeded his
father in 1851, married, in 1850, Mary, only daughter of Sir William
Foulis, Bart., of Ingleby Manor, and has issue living, by her, four
sons, the Honourable Philip, the heir-presumptive to the title, born
1853; the Honourable Algernon, born 1854: the Honourable Henry, born
1858; and the Honourable William, born 1859; and one daughter, the
Honourable Mary Sophia, born 1851.
The arms of Lord de L’Isle and Dudley are, quarterly, first and fourth,
_or_, a phoon, _azure_, for Sidney; second and third, _sable_, on
a fesse engrailed, between three whelk shells, _or_, a mullet for
difference, for Shelley. Crests, first, a porcupine, statant, _azure_,
quills collar and chain, _or_, for Sidney; second, a griffin’s head
erased, _argent_, ducally gorged, _or_, for Shelley. Supporters,
dexter, a porcupine, _azure_, quills collar and chain, _or_; sinister,
a lion, queue fourchée, _vert_. Motto: “Quo Fata Vocant.”
[Illustration: _The Village and Entrance to Churchyard._]
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