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Authorised form of namePercy; Henry George (1846 - 1918); 7th Duke of Northumberland; British Conservative politican
Other forms of nameEarl Percy
Lord Warkworth
Dates1846 - 1918
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBerkeley Square, London, Middlesex, England
Date of birth29 May 1846
Place of deathAlnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Date of death14/05/1918
ActivityEducation:
Christ Church, Oxford.
Career:
Held the office of Member of Parliament for North Northumberland (1868-1885); Privy Counsellor (1874); succeeded as the 5th Lord Lovaine, Baron of Alnwick, Northumberland (1887); held the office of Militia Aide-de-Camp to HM Queen Victoria (1892); succeeded as the 7th Duke of Northumberland (1899); succeeded as the 7th Earl Percy (1899); succeeded as the 4th Earl of Beverley, co. York (1899); succeeded as the 10th Baronet Smithson, of Stanwick, co. Yorks (1899); trustee of the British Museum (1900); held the office of Militia Aide-de-Camp to HM King Edward VII (1901); held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland (1904); held the office of Militia Aide-de-Camp to HM King George V; held the office of Lord High Steward (1911); held the office of Chancellor of Durham University (1913-1918).
Honours:
KG 1899
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/11/1900
Age at election54
ProposerJoseph Lister; Andrew Noble; Frederick Augustus Abel; William Crookerl James Crichton Browne; Ludwig Mond; James Dewar; Frederick Bramwell
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1910-1912
RelationshipsParents: Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland and Louisa Drummond.
Spouse: Lady Edith Campbell, daughter of George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll and Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (23 December 1868).
Children: Father of Louisa Elizabeth Percy; Edith Eleanor Percy; Henry Algernon George Percy; Lady Margaret Percy; Victoria Alexandra Percy; Josceline Percy; Ralph William Percy; Mary Maxwell; Lord William Richard Percy; James Percy; Eustace Percy, 1st and last Baron Percy of Newcastle; Muriel Evelyn Nora Percy; and Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; The Peerage [URL: https://www.thepeerage.com/p1007.htm, last accessed; 08/05/2024].
CodeNA475
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1900/19Percy, Henry George, 7th Duke of Northumberland: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/28/105Copy letter from [Theodore E James] to [Henry George Percy], Duke of Northumberland11 January 1904
NLB/27/677Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the [7th] Duke of Northumberland [Henry George Percy]13 November 1903
NLB/43/44/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Henry George Percy] Duke of Northumberland, Fellow of the Royal Society27 October 1910
NLB/43/54Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to His Grace, [Henry George Percy] The Duke of Northumberland, Fellow of the Royal Society31 October 1910
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