Percy Bysshe Shelley was a English scholar.
==== Ancestry ====== Political, religious and ethical views ===== Politics ===Shelley was a political radical who was influenced by thinkers such as Rousseau, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Leigh Hunt
 Shelley's life and works inspired the founding of the Vegetarian Society in England (1847) and directly influenced the vegetarianism of George Bernard Shaw and perhaps Gandhi

