HUGH PERCY, 10TH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND

'Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland' KG, GCVO, KStJ ,PC, TD, FRS (April 6 1914–October 11 1988) was the son of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland and Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox.

Contents

Career

Marriage

Sources

Career

★ Served with the Northumberland Hussars during the Second World War.

★ Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland from 1956 to 1984.

★ Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1964 to 1988.

★ Chairman of the Medical Research Council from 1969 to 1977.

★ President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1956 and 1962

★ Chairman of the Agricultural Research Council from 1958 1968.

★ Chairman of the Committee of Enquiry on Foot and Mouth Disease.

★ Lord Steward of H.M. Household from 1973 to 1988.

★ Master of the Percy Foxhounds from 1940 to 1988.

Marriage

On June 12 1946, he married Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott (daughter of Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch — the Percys and the Douglases had been enemies for several centuries, this confirmed the new ''entente''. ( see also: Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton) and had seven children:

★ Lady Caroline Mary Percy (b. 3 May 1947), married Pierre, Comte de Cabarrus and had issue.

★ Lady Victoria Lucy Diana Percy (b. 19 April 1949), married John Aiden Cuthbert and had issue.

★ Lady Julia Helen Percy (b. 12 November 1950, married Nicholas Robert Craig Harvey and had issue.

★ Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1 July 1953–31 October 1995)

★ Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland (b. 16 November 1956)

★ Lady Louise Percy (25 May 1962–27 May 1962)

★ James William Eustace Percy (b. 18 June 1965)

Sources

★ The Peerage website

★ Alnwick Castle website