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Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland CStJ (born Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas Scott; 20 January 1922 – 19 September 2012), was a British peeress and Women's Royal Naval Service officer during World War II.
- Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas Scott, 20 January 1922
4 mag 2024 · Politician and Soldier. The family vault of the Percy family, dukes of Northumberland, is in St Nicholas's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The first burial there was in 1745. Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland. A large white marble monument to Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland stands in this chapel.
Elizabeth Percy was responsible for Alnwick Castle becoming a family residence. Her romantic ideas about her ‘braw rough ancestors’ and her passion for the castle and landscape were matched by the vision of her husband, Sir Hugh Smithson. Together they restored Alnwick Castle and transformed the surrounding countryside.
Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland. Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland may refer to: Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776) Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1922–2012)
Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (née Seymour; 5th December 1716 – 5 December 1776), also suo jure 2nd Baroness Percy, was a British peer. Life. Percy was the only daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Henry Thynne.
- 26 November 1716
- 5 December 1776 (aged 60)
paper reinstates Elizabeth Percy as a responsive antiquarian in. associationalist in the spirit of the century, and an avid garden. landscape. The focus is on her advocacy, implementation and influence over the Alnwick landscape and Northumbrian castle earliest examples of Gothic Revival.
Description. xxiii, 229 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill., ports. Provenance. Presented to Queen Mary by Helen Northumberland, 1937. People involved. Physical properties. Groupings.
