Biography of Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland 1792-1865

On 23rd May 1779 [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland (age 36) and [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 26) were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland (age 63) and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland.

On 15th December 1792 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland was born to Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland (age 50) and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 39).

On 10th July 1817 [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland (age 74) died. His son [his brother] Hugh (age 32) succeeded 3rd Duke Northumberland, 3rd Baron Lovain, 4th Baron Percy, 6th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. Charlotte Herbert Duchess Northumberland (age 29) by marriage Duchess Northumberland.

On 28th April 1820 [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland (age 67) died at Syon House [Map]. She was buried in the Northumberland Vault, Crypt, Westminster Abbey.

On 25th August 1842 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland (age 49) and Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland (age 21) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. The difference in their ages was 27 years. She the daughter of Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess Westminster (age 47) and Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower Marchioness Westminster (age 45). He the son of Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland. They were half fifth cousin once removed.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. We usually spent Christmas at Beaudesert, Lord Anglesey's (age 75) lovely old place. We were always a merry party, and we dined in the large hall, which is one of the chief features of the house. Lord Anglesey was very fond of me, and used to write to me as "My dear Prima Donna!" Some of the friends staying at Beaudesert were Lord (age 38) and Lady Sydney (age 33), Lord (age 52) and Lady Winchilsea, Lord (age 25) and Lady Desart (age 22), Lord Anson (age 48), Lord Ward, M. and Madame Dietrichstein, and the Duke of Northumberland (age 51), then Lord Percy. In 1846 I was bridesmaid to Lady Constance Paget (age 20), who married Lord Winchilsea (age 28); and my great friend, Florence Paget (age 1), afterwards married the last Marquis of Hastings (age 1).

On 11th February 1847 [his brother] Hugh Percy 3rd Duke Northumberland (age 61) died without issue at Alnwick, Northumberland [Map].

Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland (age 54) succeeded 4th Duke Northumberland, 4th Baron Lovain, 5th Baron Percy, 7th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [his wife] Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland (age 26) by marriage Duchess Northumberland.

The London Gazette 21926. At the Court at BucKingham-Palace, 27th day of February 1852

PRESENT, the The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

HER Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare the Right Honourable William, Earl of Lonsdale (age 64), Lord President of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and His Lord ship took his place at the Board accordingly.

day the Most Noble Algernon (age 59), Duke of Northumberland, the Right Honourable John William (age 40), Earl of Sandwich; the Right Honourable Archibald William (age 39), Earl of Eglinton; the Right Honourable Charles Philip (age 52), Earl of Hardwicke; the Right Honourable James Howard, Earl of Malmesbury; the Right Honourable John James Robert Manners (commonly called Lord John Manners); the Right Honourable Claude Hamilton (commonly called Lord Claude Hamilton); the Right Honourable William Lennox Lascelles (age 54), Lord De Ros; the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Colchester; the Right Honourable George Cecil Weld Forester; the Right Honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington (age 53), Bart.; the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole (age 45); the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli; the Right Honourable Joseph Warner Henley; the Right Honourable Robert Adam Christopher; the Right Honourable William Beresford; and the Right Honourable George Bankes; were, by Her Majesty's command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly.

On 28th April 1852 [his brother-in-law] Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke Westminster (age 26) and Constance Leveson-Gower Duchess Westminster (age 17) were married. Their first son Victor Alexander Grosvenor was born a year later to the day. She the daughter of George Sutherland Leveson-Gower 2nd Duke Sutherland (age 65) and Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard Duchess Sutherland (age 45). He the son of [his father-in-law] Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess Westminster (age 57) and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower Marchioness Westminster (age 55). They were first cousins.

In 1853 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland (age 60) was appointed 708th Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 33).

On 12th February 1865 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland (age 72) died without issue. His first cousin George (age 86) succeeded 5th Duke Northumberland, 8th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. His great nephew John (age 24) succeeded 6th Baron Percy. Baron Lovain extinct.

Before 5th October 1878 Francis Grant (age 75). Portrait of Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland.

On 4th May 1911 [his former wife] Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland (age 90) died.