Percy Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a English Romantic poet and playwright during the early 19th century.

He was born in 1792. (PROSE: Managra)

Shelley was the husband of Mary Shelley, best known as the author of the science based horror story Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, who later became a companion of the Eighth Doctor. His circle of friends included his fellow Romantic poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, one of the first authors to write about vampires. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)

The Fifth Doctor once expressed a desire to meet him. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear) In his eighth incarnation, he would later encounter both Shelley and his wife in the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816. (AUDIO: Mary's Story) Mary regarded her husband as being her soulmate. (AUDIO: Army of Death)

In 1822, Shelley drowned after his schooner sank off the coast of Italy. (PROSE: Managra)

Other information

 * A Reprise of Shelley lived in Europa. (PROSE: Managra)

Behind the scenes

 * Although Percy and Mary Shelley were depicted as husband and wife in June 1816 in AUDIO: Mary's Story, they did not actually get married until 30 December of that year.
 * He was played by Lee Cornes in an episode of Blackadder the Third.