Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland
MVO, TD | |
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Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland | |
In office 19 July 1918 – 23 August 1930 | |
Personal details | |
Born | London | 17 April 1880
Died | 23 August 1930 London | (aged 50)
Spouse | |
Children | 6, including |
Parent(s) | Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland Lady Edith Campbell |
Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland,
Military career
Percy was a
Political activities
Politically Percy was a Tory diehard.[6] He was a staunch supporter of the House of Lords. He wrote for the National Review on military matters.
From 1921, he funded the Boswell Publishing Company, and then in 1922 until his death, the Patriot, a radical right-wing weekly which published articles by
In 1924, he acquired an interest in The Morning Post.
Other activities
The Duke was appointed
In 1930, the Duke wrote a short story The Shadow on the Moor, a fox-hunting ghost story in the manner of M R James set in Northumberland, in which the hunter becomes the hunted. Originally privately published, the story remains in print as a short novella.[9]
Family
Percy was the son of Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, and Lady Edith Campbell.[4]
On 18 October 1911, Percy married Lady Helen Magdalen Gordon-Lennox (daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond). They had six children:[4][10]
- Henry George Alan Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (15 July 1912, killed in action21 May 1940)
- Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland (6 April 1914, died 11 October 1988); he married Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott on 12 June 1946. They have seven children.
- Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy (25 May 1916 – 16 September 2008); she married Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamiltonon 2 December 1937. They have five children.
- Lady Diana Evelyn Percy (23 November 1917 – 16 June 1978); she married John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland on 29 April 1939. They had no children.
- Lord Richard Charles Percy (11 February 1921 – 20 December 1989). Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Joined the Grenadier Guards in 1941, serving with the Regiment's 1st Battalion in the Guards Armoured Division in North West Europe until retiring with the rank of Major in 1946; joined the Territorial Army regiment, the Northumberland Hussars in 1947 (Lieutenant-Colonel commanding 1958–1961). He was a lecturer in Zoology at Newcastle University for 36 years.[11] He married Sarah Jane Elizabeth Norton (1937–1978), daughter of Petre Norton of The Manor House, Whalton, on 10 September 1966. They had two children:
- Algernon Alan Percy (17 March 1969)
- Josceline Richard Percy (2 June 1971)
- Lord Richard Charles Percy married secondly Hon. Clayre Campbell in 1979.
- Lord Geoffrey William Percy (8 July 1925 – 4 December 1984); he married Mary Elizabeth Lea on 27 May 1955. They had one daughter:
- Diana Ruth Percy (22 November 1956)
The 8th Duke died on 23 August 1930
Works
- A Year Ago: Eye-witness's Narrative of the War from March 30th to July 18th, 1915, with E. D. Swinton, Longmans, Green & Co., 1916.
- "The Realities of the Situation," The Patriot, Vol. I, No. 1, 9 February 1922.
- First Jewish Bid For World Power, Reprinted from the Patriot, January, 1930.
- The Shadow on the Moor, 1930
- "La Salamandre" The story of a vivandière 1934
Other
- , with an introduction by the Duke of Northumberland, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1924.
References
- ^ "No. 27156". The London Gazette. 23 January 1900. p. 431.
- ^ "The War – the Queen and the Grenadier Guards". The Times. No. 36090. London. 15 March 1900. p. 10.
- ^ "The War – Return of Troops". The Times. No. 36842. London. 9 August 1902. p. 11.
- ^ a b c d e Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953: 'Northumberland'.
- ^ Army List.
- ^ Roy Palmer Domenico, Mark Y. Hanley (editors) Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics: L-Z Greenwood Press (2006) p440
- ^ Markku Ruotsila, 'The Antisemitism of the Eighth Duke of Northumberland's the Patriot, 1922–1930', Journal of Contemporary History 39:1 (2004), 71–92
- ^ "Middlesex County Council. New Alderman Elected". Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer. 3 August 1918. p. 6.
- ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Moor-Alan-Ian-Percy/dp/0948560363
- The Peerage. Wellington, New Zealand: John Cardinal's Second Site. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ Guards Magazine, Spring 1990
- ^ "Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland & Percy Family". Westminster Abbey. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
Further reading
- Ruotsila, Markku (2005). "The Catholic Apostolic Church in British Politics," Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. LVI (1), pp. 75–91.