Biography of Henry Hugh Manvers Percy 1817-1877
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On 22 Jun 1801 [his father] George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland (age 23) and [his mother] Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (age 19) were married. He the son of Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley (age 51) and Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley (age 50).
On 22 Aug 1817 Henry Hugh Manvers Percy was born to George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland (age 39) and Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (age 35) at Burwood House, Cobham. He was educated at Eton College [Map].
On 21 Oct 1830 [his grandfather] Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley (age 80) died. His son [his father] George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland (age 52) succeeded 2nd Earl Beverley.
On 31 Jan 1848 [his mother] Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (age 66) died.
On 20 Sep 1854 Charles Pierrepont Darcy Lane-Fox (age 24) was wounded, Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) fought.
Major-General John Douglas (age 37) commanded the 79th Regiment of Foot.
William Frederick Waldegrave (age 38) died from wounds received.
Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) was shot through the arm.
General George Augustus Frederick Paget (age 36), Godfrey Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar (age 23) and Hedworth Joliffe 2nd Baron Hylton (age 25) fought.
Arthur Williams-Wynn (age 35), Captain of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed.
On 25 Oct 1854 Poulett George Henry Somerset (age 32) and William Archer Amherst 3rd Earl Amherst (age 18) fought.
Major-General John Douglas (age 37) commanded the 79th Regiment of Foot.
General George Augustus Frederick Paget (age 36) and Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) fought.
On 23 Jul 1855 Edward Fitzclarence (age 18) was killed at the Siege of Sevastopol.
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 25) and Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) fought.
The London Gazette 21997. War-Office, May 5, 1857.
The Queen (age 37) has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the Decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers of Her Majesty's Army, who have been recommended to Her Majesty for that Decoration,—in accordance with the rules laid down in Her Majesty's Warrant of the 29th of January, 1856,—on account of acts of bravery performed by them before the Enemy during the late War, as recorded against their several names; viz.
Grenadier Guards. Colonel Hon. Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 39). Date of Act of Bravery, 5th November, 1854 [ at the Battle of Inkerman]
At a moment when the Guards were at some distance from the Sand Bag Battery, at the Battle of Inkerman, Colonel Percy charged singly into the battery, followed immediately by the Guards; the embrasures of the battery, as also the parapet, were held by the Russians, who kept up a most severe fire of musketry.
At the Battle of Inkerman Colonel Percy, found himself with many men of various regiments, who had charged too far, nearly surrounded by the Russians, and without ammunition. Colonel Percy, by his knowledge of ground, though wounded, extricated these men, and, passing under a heavy fire from the Russians then in the Sand Bag Battery, brought them safe to where ammunition was to be obtained, thereby saving some fifty men, and enabling them to renew the combat. He received the approval of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, for this action, on the spot.—Colonel Percy was engaged with, and put hors de combat, a Russian soldier.
7th Regiment. Lieutenant William Hope. Date of Act of Bravery, 18th June, 1855.
After the troops had retreated on the morning of the 18th June, 1855, Lieutenant W. Hope being informed by the late Serjeant-Major William Bacon, who was himself wounded, that Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson was lying outside the trenches badly wounded, went out to look for him, and found him lying in the old agricultural ditch running towards the left flank of the Redan. He then returned, and got four men to bring him in. Finding, however, that Lieutenant Hobson could not be removed without a stretcher, he then ran back across the open to Egerton's Pit, where he procured one, and carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying.
All this was done under a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries.
7th Regiment. Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Egerton Hale, M.D. Date of Act of Bravery, 8th September, 1855
First. For remaining with an officer who was dangerously wounded, (Captain H. M. Jones, 7th Regiment), in the fifth parallel, on 8th September, 1855, when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood retreated, excepting Lieutenant W. Hope and Dr. Hale; and for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers.
Secondly. For having, on 8th September, 1855, after the regiments had retired into the trenches, cleared the most advanced sap of the wounded, and carried, into the sap, under a heavy fire, several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted by Serjeant Charles Fisher, 7th Royal Fusiliers
Coldstream Guards (late of the 49th Regiment). Brevet-Major John Augustus Conolly Date of Act of Bravery, 26th October, 1854.
In the attack by the Russians against the position held by the Second Division, 26th October, 1854, Major Conolly, then a Lieutenant in the 49th Regiment, while in command of a company of that regiment, on outlying picket, made himself most conspicuous by the gallantry of his behaviour. He came particularly under the observation of the late Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, while in personal encounter with several Russians, in defence of his post. He ultimately fell, dangerously wounded. Lieutenant Conolly was highly praised in General Orders, and promoted into the Coldstream Guards, as a reward for his exemplary behaviour on this occasion.
On 26 Jun 1857 the first sixty-two recipients of the Victoria Cross had the decoration pinned to their breasts by Queen Victoria (age 38) in Hyde Park [Map]. Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 39), who was the most senior office present to receive the Victoria Cross, commanded on the day.
On 12 Feb 1865 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland (age 72) died without issue. His first cousin [his father] George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland (age 86) succeeded 5th Duke Northumberland, 8th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. His great nephew John Murray aka Stewart-Murray 7th Duke of Atholl (age 24) succeeded 6th Baron Percy.
On 22 Aug 1867 [his father] George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland (age 89) died. His son [his brother] Algernon George Percy 6th Duke Northumberland (age 57) succeeded 6th Duke Northumberland, 3rd Earl Beverley, 9th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. Louisa Drummond Duchess Northumberland by marriage Duchess Northumberland.
Wriothesley's Chronicle. A Chronicle Of England During The Reigns Of The Tudors, From A.D. 1485 To 1559. By Charles Wriothesley, Windsor Herald. Edited, from A MS. in the Possession Of Lieut.-General Lord Henry H. M. Percy (age 57), K.C.B., V.C., F.R.G.S., By William Douglas Hamilton, F.S.A. Volume I. Printed For The Camden Society. M.DCCC.LXXV. [1875]
On 03 Dec 1877 Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 60) died at his home 40 Eaton Square, Belgravia, unmarried. He was buried on 07 Dec 1877 in the Percy faily vault in the Chapel of St Nicholas, Westminster Abbey [Map].
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Son of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Jerome Smithson 2nd Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Smithson 3rd Baronet
Great x 2 Grandfather: Langdale Smithson
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland
GrandFather: Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Seymour 2nd Baron Seymour Trowbridge 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Seymour 6th Duke Somerset 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eizabeth Alington 2nd Baroness Seymour Trowbridge 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Algernon Seymour 7th Duke Somerset 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Thynne 1st Viscount Weymouth 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Thynne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Finch Viscountess Weymouth 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Thynne Duchess Somerset 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Strode 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Grace Strode 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: George Percy 5th Duke Northumberland 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Burrell
Great x 1 Grandfather: Peter Burrell
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Raymond
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Raymond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Amy Raymond
GrandMother: Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley
Henry Hugh Manvers Percy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Dugald Stuart 2nd Baronet 12 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Stuart 1st Earl Bute 13 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Stuart 2nd Earl Bute 14 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Stuart 3rd Earl Bute 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 9th Earl Argyll 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Archibald Campbell 1st Duke Argyll 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Stewart Countess Argyll 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Campbell Countess Bute 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 3rd Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tollemache Duchess Argyll 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Murray Duchess Lauderdale
GrandFather: James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Sidney Wortley-Montagu 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jemima Crew Countess Sandwich 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Wortley-Montagu 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Wortley-Montagu Countess Bute 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Evelyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Wortley-Montagu née Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Feilding 2nd Earl Desmond 3rd Earl Denbigh 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Fielding Countess Kingston upon Hull 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Carey Countess Desmond and Denbigh 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Cunynghame 3rd Baronet
GrandMother: Margaret Cunynghame