Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet

Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet (18 March 1808 – 28 January 1867)[1] was an English Tory landowner and politician.

He was born the eldest son of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet and the former Frances Winkley (1787–1873), a noted diarist and close friend of the Duke of Wellington.

Upon his death, the baronetcy passed to his younger brother Frederic, although he bequeathed Maresfield Hall to Blanche, who married Hervey Charles Pechell in 1874 and never took up residence.

Pechell left the Maresfield Park estate to Count Alexander Münster in 1899.

Münster, who married Lady Muriel Hay (a daughter of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull, had been living at Maresfield while Pechell and Blanche resided in Bellagio in Italy.