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Bysshe Shelley cared little for his eldest son Timothy, Avho did not succeed to the baronetcy until the death of Sir Bysshe in 1815, when the age of the poet, who stood next in suc- cession, was twenty -three. Shelley was in childhood, youth, and manhood, sensi- tive and emotional. As a child at Field Place he was leader in the sports of four younger sisters, and enter- tained them with the playfulness of a wild fancy. He tried his fancy also on father and mother, sometimes astonishing them with stories of where he had been and what he had done and seen, but done and seen only in his little world of dreams. After four years of early teaching under the Rev. Mr. Edwards at Warnham, Shelley was sent to a school of 6 INTRODUCTION. about sixty boys at Isleworth, near Brentford ; Sion House Academy, under Dr. G-reenlaw, an old Scotch divine. There he found among the schoolboys his cousin, Thomas Medwin, who has told how Shelley resented the tyrannies of boy-life in the schools that were.