2280238Royal Naval Biography — Percy, AlgernonJohn Marshall


RIGHT HON. ALGERNON, LORD PRUDHOE,
State-Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
[Post-Captain of 1815.]

This officer is the Duke of Northumberland’s only brother. He was born Dec. 15, 1792; made lieutenant Dec. 16, 1811; promoted to the command of the Swallow brig, on the Mediterranean station. Mar. 8, 1814; appointed acting captain of the Cossack 22, in the summer of the same year; advanced to post rank Aug. 19, 1815; and created a peer of Great Britain, Aug. 14, 1816.