Background
Sidney was the only son of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet and Henrietta Hunloke.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Sidney was the only son of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet and Henrietta Hunloke.
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Sidney represented Eye in the House of Commons from 1829 to 1831 and also served as an equerry to his father-in-law from 1830 to 1835 and as Surveyor-General of the Duchy of Cornwall from 1833 to 1849. In 1835, fourteen years before he succeeded his father, he was raised to the peerage as Baron De L"Isle and Dudley, of Penshurst in the County of Kent.
8th United Kingdom Parliament. 9th United Kingdom Parliament.