⟨Lord⟩ Chamberlain to the Queen Consort, 1762; Lord Lieut. of Middlesex, 1762; (illegible text) of Ireland (as Lord Lieut.), 1763-85; Vice Admiral of North America, in ⟨1764⟩. He was cr., 22 Oct. 1766, EARL PERCY and DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND He was Master of the Horse, 1778-80. Finally he was cr., 28 Jan, 1784, (illegible text) LOVAINE, BARON of ALNWICK, co. Northumberland, with a spec. rem, (illegible text) second son, Lord Algernon Percy. His wife, who was b. 26 Nov. and bap. (illegible text) 1716, at St. Martin in the fields, suc. her father, 7 Feb. 1749/50, in the Barony Percy (cr. in 1722 by his summons therein) as suo jure, BARONESS PERCY. She, (illegible text) 1761 to 1775 was one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Queen Consort, at Northumberland House, in the Strand, 5, and was bur. (with her parents), Dec. 1776, in Westm. Abbey, aged 60.(a)[1] He d. 6 and was bur. 21 June 1786, Westm. Abbey, in his 74th year.(b)[2] Will pr. 4 July 1786.
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2 and 3. Hugh (Percy, sometime Smithson), Duke of Northumberland [1760], Earl of Northumberland}} [1749], Earl Percy [1766], Lord Percy [1722], and Baron Warkworth [1749], also a Baronet (1760), s. and h., b. 14 and bạp. 25 Aug. 1742, in the parish of St. Geo. Han. sq. received the name of Percy in lieu of that of Smithson under the act of Parl., 12 April 1750, above named, and was styled Lord Warkworth, 1750-66, and Earl Percy, 1766-86; entered the army in 1759, serving with distinction (as Major General) in America in 1775, becoming finally, 1793, General in the army, and being Col. of the 5th Foot, 1768; of the 2d troop of Horse Gren. Guards, 1784, and of the Horsr Guards, 1806-12; M.P. for Westminster, 1763-76. By the death, 6 Dec. 1776, of his mother, he became Lord Percy [1722] and was sum. v.p. in that Barony, taking his seat, 20 Nov. 1777. (c)[3] He suc. his father as Duke of Northumberland, &c., 6 Jan. 1786. Lord Lieut. and Vice Admiral of Northumberland, 1786-99, and 1802-17; F.S.A., 1787; F.R.S., 1788, el. K.G., 9 April 1788, and inst., 29 May 1801. He m. firstly, 2 July 1764, by spec. lic., in South Audley street, Anne, 3d da. of John (Stuart), 3d Earl of Bute [S.] (the famous Minister), by Mary, only da, of Edward Wortley-Montaqu. She (by whom he had no issue) was b. Aug. 1746 at St. James' Westm; and was divorced (as Countess Percy) by act of Parl. in March 1779.(d)[4] He secondly, 25 May 1779, at the house of her mother in Berkeley square (St. Geo. Han. sq.), Frances Julia, sister of Peter Robert, 1st Baron Gwydyr, 3d da, of Peter Bureli, of Langley Park, in Beckenham, Kent, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of John Lewis. He d. at Northumberland House, Strand, 10, and was bur. 19 July
1817 in Westmi. Abbey, aged 75(e)[5] Will pr. 12 Feb, 1818. His widow, who was b. 21 Dec. 1752 and bap. 19 Jan. 1753 at St. Anne's, Soho, d. at Langley Park, 28 and was bur. 10 May 1820 in Westm. Abbey, age 66.(f)[6] Will pr. 30 May 1820.
- ↑ (a) The entry there is as follows. "The most high, puissant and noble Princess, Duchess of Northumberland, in her own right Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitz Pain, Bryan, and Latimer," thus attributing to her six Baronies of which but one (a modern one of Percy cr. in 1722 in her own lifetime) properly belonged to her. See as to the first five Baronies, p. 90, note "c" and p. 86, note "d," and as to "Latimer," p. 90, note "f."
- ↑ (b) He is said to have planted above £12,000 trees annually in Northumberland, and to have effected great restorations at Alnwick Castle in that county, Stanwick, in Yorkshire, and Sion House and Northumberland House, in Middlesex.
- ↑ (c) As in the case of his maternal grandfather, in 1722, the precedency of the ancient Barony of Percy [1299) was erroneously allowed to him.
- ↑ (d) The cause was crim. con, with “William Bird, Esq." a young gentleman of the Univ. of Cambridge. Her husband was, in the libel exhibited at the trial, 27 May 1778, styled "Hugh, Baron Percy, commonly called Lord Warkworth," altho' since 1766 his courtesy title was apparently "Earl Percy."
- ↑ (e) He, as "Duke Smithson of Northumberland," is the hero of the "Chevy chase" in "the Anti-Jacobin," in which his claim (as the father of "children eight") to "deductions 10 per cent." on Pitt's hair-powder tax is held up to ridicule. In the obituary of the Ann. Reg. for 1817 he is however said to have been “distinguished by the most munificent liberality."
- ↑ (f) See vol. iv, p. 126, note “c,” sub “Gwydyr” as to her and her sisters.
