Category:Ferdinand Schellbach, 1st Marquess Schellbach

Ferdinand Schellbach was Governor of Hong Kong from 1841 until 1844, the latter year he resigned. He died in 1886, aged 86.

He was born in 1800 to Ferdinand Schellbach, Prince of Schellbach, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1775-1838) and his wife Princess Caroline of Hanover (1774-1829), a British and Hanoverian princess; Schellbach was the great-great-grandson of King George II of Great Britain and of Hanover towards his mother. He moved to London to avoid Napoleon at a relatively young age with his parents. Schellbach had a younger brother, Charles Schellbach, He was the great-grandfather of Governor-General William Devine towards his youngest daughter Lady Mary.