Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland

Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland (Caricature in Vanity Fair magazine June 14, 1884)

Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland KG PC DL JP (* May 20, 1810 - January 2, 1899 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Tories and most recently the Conservative Party , which between 1831 and 1832 and again from 1852 to 1867 Member of the House of Commons was, and in 1859 the Office of the Paymaster General and the Vice-Minister of Commerce (Vice-President of the Board of trade ) held. In 1867 he inherited the title of 6th Duke of Northumberlandand was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . He acted beyond 1877-1899 as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland and from 1878 to 1880 as Lord Privy Seal .

Life

Family origins and siblings

Algernon George Percy came from the noble family of the Percy . He was the third child and eldest son of George Percy , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1799 and 1830 and inherited the title of 3rd Earl of Beverley from his father Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley in 1830 and thus became a member of the House of Lords , and his wife Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley. His father also inherited the title of 5th Duke of Northumberland from his cousin Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, who died childless .

His eldest sister, Lady Margaret Percy, was with Edward Richard Littleton , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1847 to 1857 with one interruption and, in 1863, after inheriting the title of 2nd Baron Hatherton, of Hatherton in the County of Staffordshire, also a member of the House of Lords was. His second oldest sister, Lady Louisa Percy, died unmarried.

His younger brother, Lord Josceline William Percy, was also a Member of the House of Commons from 1852 to 1859 and married to Margaret Davidson, widow of the politician Robert Grant . His youngest brother was the one with the Victoria Cross excellent Lord Henry Percy , who as an officer in the rebellions of 1837 and the Crimean War took part, most recently to lieutenant general was promoted as well as from 1865 to 1868 and member of the House of Commons was.

He himself completed his school education at the renowned Eton College and then began his military service with the Grenadier Guards , from which he resigned as captain in 1837 .

Member of the House of Commons and Paymaster General

In the meantime, Percy was elected to the House of Commons for the first time on May 2, 1831 as a candidate of the Conservative Tories and represented the constituency of Bere Alston until December 10, 1832 .

20 years later, on July 7, 1852 , he was re-elected member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party against the Whig mandate holder George Gray , and represented the constituency of North Northumberland in this until July 11, 1865 .

During this time he held his first government office as Lord of the Admiralty (Civil Lord of the Admiralty) during the tenure of Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby from February 20, 1858 to March 3, 1859 . Then he took over on March 3, 1859 as part of a cabinet reshuffle from Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore, the office of Paymaster General (Paymaster General) , while Frederick Lygon took over his office as Lord of the Admiralty . In addition, the office of the General Paymaster was connected to that of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade , both of which he exercised until June 11, 1859. In addition, he was appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC).

Member of the House of Lords, Freemason and Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland County

After the death of his father on August 21, 1867, Lord Lovaine inherited the titles of 6th Duke of Northumberland and the subordinate titles of 6th Earl Percy , 3rd Earl of Beverley, in the County of Yorkshire , 4th Lord Lovaine, Baron of Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland and as 9th Baronet Smithson, of Stanwick, in the County of Yorkshire and was therefore a member of the House of Lords until his death.

He was involved with the Freemasons and was Provincial Grand Master of the Northumberland Freemasons between 1869 and 1886 . In 1870 he earned a doctorate in law LL.D. (Doctor of Laws) at St John's College of the University of Cambridge . He also served from 1873 until his death in 1899 as President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain , which is devoted to scientific education and research.

In 1877 the Duke of Northumberland succeeded Henry Gray, 3rd Earl Gray as Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and held this position as representative of Queen Victoria in this county until his death in 1899. He was then succeeded by Albert Gray, 4th Earl Gray .

Lord seal keeper and other offices

On February 4, 1878 he was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield to the Lord Privy Seal in his second government and thus took over an office that Prime Minister Disraeli had previously held himself. He held this government office until April 21, 1880.

The Duke of Northumberland, who also temporarily magistrate (justice of the peace) and Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey, was engaged in numerous other organizations and including President of the rescue organization RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) . In 1882 he also earned a doctorate in civil law DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) at the University of Durham and in 1883 became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). He also held the position of President of the Royal Archaeological Institute between 1883 and 1892 .

In 1885, the Duke of Northumberland for was Knight of the Garter (Knight of the Garter) collected the most exclusive Order of the United Kingdom and one of the most respected in Europe.

Marriage and offspring

Henry George Percy, Earl Percy , the first and eldest son of Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland (caricature in Vanity Fair magazine August 27, 1881)

Algernon George Percy was married to Louisa Drummond, a daughter of the banker and temporary MP Henry Drummond and his wife, Lady Henrietta Hay Drummond, who was a daughter of Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull , who was 10th Earl of Kinnoull in 1796 , since May 26, 1845 until 1804 held the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms .

From this marriage two sons were born. The eldest son, Henry George Percy, was also a member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party between 1868 and 1885 and served as Treasurer of the Household in the second government of Prime Minister Disraeli between 1874 and 1875 . Henry Percy inherited the title of 5th Lord Lovaine, Baron of Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland during his father's lifetime in 1885 , so that he was already a member of the House of Lords due to this rule called Writ of Acceleration . He inherited the title of 7th Duke of Northumberland and subordinate titles after the death of the 6th Duke of Northumberland in 1899 . In addition, like his father, he was President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1899 until his death, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland between 1904 and 1918 and Chancellor of Durham University from 1913 to 1918 . He also became a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1899.

The younger son, Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy , also represented the Conservative Tories as MPs in the House of Commons from 1882 to 1887 and held the honorary title of High Sheriff of Warwickshire between 1910 and 1911 .

Web links

• Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland on thepeerage.com , accessed August 12, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
George Percy	Duke of Northumberland 1867-1899	Henry George Percy
Richard Hely-Hutchinson	Paymaster General 1859	James Wilson
Benjamin Disraeli	Keeper of the Lord Seal 1878–1880	George Campbell
Henry Gray	Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland 1878-1899	Albert Gray