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Algernon Percy, IV duca di Northumberland ( Coventry, 15 dicembre 1792 – Coventry, 12 febbraio 1865) è stato un ammiraglio inglese . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Carriera navale. 3 Carriera politica. 4 Matrimonio. 5 Morte. 6 Ascendenza. 7 Onorificenze. 8 Note. 9 Altri progetti. Biografia.
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Lord Algernon Percy, VI duca di Northumberland ( Hastings, 20 maggio 1810 – Coventry, 2 gennaio 1899) è stato un politico britannico, conosciuto come Lord Lovaine tra il 1830 ed il 1865 e Conte Percy tra il 1865 ed il 1867. Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Carriera. 3 Matrimonio. 4 Morte. 5 Ascendenza. 6 Onorificenze. 7 Note. 8 Altri progetti. Biografia.
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Northumberland was the second son of General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, and his second wife Frances Julia, daughter of Peter Burrell. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.
Northumberland entered the Royal Navy in March 1805, aged 12, on board HMS Tribune and served in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1815, when only 22, he was promoted to captain, taking command of HMS Cossack in August, and commanding her until she was broken up some 10 months later. The following year, aged 23, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Prudhoe,...
Northumberland succeeded his childless elder brother in the dukedom in 1847. In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet, by the Earl of Derby, a post he held until the fall of the government in December 1852. In 1853 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Northumberland married, aged 49, Lady Eleanor Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, on 25 August 1842 at St George's, Hanover Square. They had no children. As a result of gout in his right hand, he died in February 1865, aged 72 at Alnwick Castle and was buried in the Northumberland Vault, within Westminster Abbey. ...
O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Percy, Algernon" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
1786), I duca di Northumberland, nelle diverse storiche dimore di famiglia. In sintonia con quest’ultimo e la sua consorte Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-1776), anche il IV duca individuò nel castello di Alnwick la migliore identificazione con la stirpe dei Percy. Tuttavia, come evidenziato da Thomas Leverton Do-
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Role in the Regicide. Life during the English Interregnum, 1649–1660. Life following the Restoration, 1660–1668. Notes. References. Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, KG, JP (29 September 1602 – 13 October 1668), was an English aristocrat, and supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the First English Civil War. [2]
