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Ralph Percy blev født som den anden søn (og en af syv børn) af Hugh Percy, 10. Hertug af Northumberland og hans kone, Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott, datter af Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, den 8. Duke of Buccleuch og Queensberry. Han gik på Eton College, og studerede historie ved University of Oxford, og derefter godsforvaltning på ...
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. Naval career. Northumberland entered the Royal Navy in March 1805, aged 12, on board HMS Tribune and served in the Napoleonic Wars.
Elizabeth Percy (née Seymour), Duchess of Northumberland, 2nd Baroness Percy (1716–1776), daughter and heiress of the 7th Duke of Somerset, married Sir Hugh Smithson (who adopted the name Percy) Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1714–1786), né Smithson.
HUGH ALGERNON PERCY. 10th Duke of Northumberland. 6 April 1914 — 11 October 1988. Elected F.R.S. 1970. BY SIR WILLIAM HENDERSON, F.R.S. The activities of the tenth Duke of Northumberland relevant to Fellowship of the Royal Society were the great part that he played in forwarding the work of the Research Councils.
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Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland (6 April 1914 – 11 October 1988), was the son of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, and Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox. He succeeded to the dukedom of Northumberland in 1940, when his brother Henry, the 9th Duke , was killed in Belgium in World War II during the retreat to Dunkirk.
Biography. Percy, who was described by Mrs Nicholson Calvert as ‘a chattering good humoured civil young man’, was utterly dominated by his father. The 2nd Duke of Northumberland, a former soldier, was vain, arrogant and crotchety. He attached himself to the Prince of Wales in 1788, but his real political influence was slight.
