Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland 1792-1865

On 23rd May 1779 [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland [aged 36] and [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland [aged 26] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 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 [aged 50] and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland [aged 39].

On 19th May 1810 [his brother-in-law] James Murray 1st Baron Glenlyon [aged 27] and [his sister] Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston [aged 22] were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. She the daughter of [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland [aged 67] and [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland [aged 57]. He the son of John Murray 4th Duke Atholl [aged 54].

On 29th April 1817 [his brother] Hugh Percy 3rd Duke Northumberland [aged 32] and [his sister-in-law] Charlotte Herbert Duchess Northumberland [aged 29] were married at Northumberland aka Suffolk House Strand. She the daughter of Edward Clive 1st Earl Powis [aged 63] and Henrietta Antonia Herbert 3rd Countess Powis [aged 58]. He the son of [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland [aged 74] and [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland [aged 64].

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

On 28th April 1820 [his mother] Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland [aged 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 [aged 49] and Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland [aged 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 [aged 47] and Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower Marchioness Westminster [aged 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 [aged 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 [aged 38] and Lady Sydney [aged 33], Lord [aged 52] and Lady Winchilsea, Lord [aged 25] and Lady Desart [aged 22], Lord Anson [aged 48], Lord Ward, M. and Madame Dietrichstein, and the Duke of Northumberland [aged 51], then Lord Percy. In 1846 I was bridesmaid to Lady Constance Paget [aged 20], who married Lord Winchilsea [aged 28]; and my great friend, Florence Paget [aged 1], afterwards married the last Marquis of Hastings [aged 1].

On 20th June 1844 [his sister] Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston [aged 56] died.

Monument to the daughters of [his father] Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland in Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire [Map] sculpted by Joseph Gott [aged 58].

Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston: In 1788 she was born to Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland. On 19th May 1810 James Murray 1st Baron Glenlyon and she were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. She the daughter of Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland. He the son of John Murray 4th Duke Atholl.

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

Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland [aged 54] succeeded 4th Duke Northumberland, 4th Baron Lovain, 5th Baron Percy, 7th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [his wife] Eleanor Grosvenor Duchess Northumberland [aged 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 [aged 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 [aged 59], Duke of Northumberland, the Right Honourable John William [aged 40], Earl of Sandwich; the Right Honourable Archibald William [aged 39], Earl of Eglinton; the Right Honourable Charles Philip [aged 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 [aged 54], Lord De Ros; the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Colchester; the Right Honourable George Cecil Weld Forester; the Right Honourable Sir John Somerset Pakington [aged 53], Bart.; the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole [aged 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 [aged 26] and Constance Leveson-Gower Duchess Westminster [aged 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 [aged 65] and Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard Duchess Sutherland [aged 45]. He the son of [his father-in-law] Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess Westminster [aged 57] and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower Marchioness Westminster [aged 55]. They were first cousins.

In 1853 Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland [aged 60] was appointed 708th Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 33].

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

Before 5th October 1878 Francis Grant [aged 75]. Portrait of Algernon Percy 4th Duke Northumberland.

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