Josceline Percy (Royal Navy officer)
Josceline Percy | |
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| Born | 29 January 1784 London |
| Died | 19 October 1856 (aged 72) |
Family
Josceline was the fourth son of
Through his father he was the grandson of Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland,[1] and through his mother the grandson of Peter Burrell of Beckenham, Kent. His maternal uncle was Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr, and Henry Percy (1785–1825) and William Henry Percy (1788–1855, another naval officer) were his younger brothers.[1]
Life
Born with a twin brother (
He moved to
He assisted at the occupation of Madeira by Sir Samuel Hood in 1807 (commanding the 22 gun HMS Comus).[1] To meet the terms of the convention of Cintra, requiring all defeated French forces to be returned to France, he transported the French general Junot from Portugal to La Rochelle in 1808, during his captaincy of the 36 gun HMS Nymphe.[1] He commanded the frigate HMS Hotspur along the coast of France (and later at Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires) from November 1810 to the end of 1815, when he sailed back to England.[1]
He was appointed a
Marriage and issue
On 9 December 1820, he married Sophia Elizabeth Walhouse (died 13 December 1875), daughter of Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton, Staffordshire, and sister of Lord Hatherton. One son and three daughters were born of the marriage. The only son Alan (1825–1845) died young; of the daughters[5]
- Sophia Louisa Percy (24 December 1821 Hatherton – 7 November 1908), author of Links with the Past (1901) (text) married 7 July 1846 Col. Charles Bagot (20 May 1806 – 25 February 1881), of a prominent aristocratic family, and had issue, three sons, including Richard Bagot (1860–1921), their fourth and last child,[6] and an only daughter and eldest child Alice Mary Bagot (died 1922). The present Bagots of Levens Hall, Westmorland are descended (through an heiress) from Josceline, the eldest son of Charles and Sophia Bagot.
- Emily Percy (12 September 1826 – 17 December 1919) married 17 July 1852, Gen. Sir Charles Lawrence d’Aguilar, G.C.B. (died 2 November 1912), and had issue, 1 daughter.[7]
- Charlotte Alice Percy (17 July 1831 – 26 May 1916) who in 1858 married her first cousin Edward Percy Thompson (1837 – October 1879), himself son of Ellen Percy, herself fourth youngest daughter of Hugh Percy, Bishop of Carlisle (twin brother of the subject of this entry), and had issue, two sons and three daughters.[8] The eldest daughter Grace Anne Thompson (died 1960) married 1892 her (double) second cousin Capt. Josceline Hugh Percy (1856–1910), 7th and youngest son of Rev. Henry Percy, himself the second son of Bishop Hugh, and had issue two sons and two daughters.[9]
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). . . John Murray – via Wikisource.
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Josceline Percy at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "No. 18854". The London Gazette. 27 September 1831. p. 1969.
- ^ Hiscocks, Richard (17 January 2016). "Cape Commander-in-Chief 1795-1852". morethannelson.com. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ William Loney RN
- better source needed] Dates obtained from this source.
- Duke of Wellington). Richard Bagot became a Roman Catholic in 1881.
- ISBN 978-0-7884-1872-3.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Ibid.