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CHARLES PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY was born in the year 1827, at Epsom, his father being a physician and surgeon practising in that town.

He received his early education at Dr. Pritchard’s school at Clapham, considered at that period as one of the best private schools in London. From thence he went to King’s College, London, and having early evinced a strong desire to become an