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Ralph Percy was born at Alnwick Castle, the fifth child and second son of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland, and the former Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott, [1] daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch.
George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683.He had already been created Baron of Pontefract, Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504 [1] – 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.
Arms of Percy ancient: Azure, five fusils conjoined in fesse or [1] These arms are still quartered by the Dukes of Northumberland, but were superseded c. 1300 by the adoption by Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy (d.1314) of the arms Or, a lion rampant azure, the source for which is variously given as the "Lion of Brabant", [2] the extinct arms of Redvers, Earls of Devon, [3] or the Lion of ...
Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland (6 April 1914 – 11 October 1988), styled Lord Hugh Percy between 1918 and 1940, was a British landowner, soldier and peer. He was the son of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland , and Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox .
In 1995, his father succeeded his childless brother as 12th Duke of Northumberland. Percy's mother, the Duchess of Northumberland, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland in 2009. Percy lived at a farmhouse in Northumberland until his father became the duke, when the family moved to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Syon House, West ...
Percy was the eldest son of Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, by his wife Louisa, daughter of Henry Drummond. Lord Algernon Percy was his younger brother. He became known by the courtesy title Lord Lovaine when his grandfather succeeded in the dukedom of Northumberland in 1865 and as Earl Percy when his father succeeded in the dukedom in 1867.
Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1 July 1953 – 31 October 1995), styled Earl Percy until 1988, was a British peer from the Percy family.. He was born at Syon House, [1] the eldest son and heir of Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch.