THE LATE EARL PERCY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 5

THE LATE EARL PERCY.

, BOTH PARTIES' TRIBUTE. By Telecrdpt-fress : j (Reo. v ; Jiinuary : .l, 9 t^m.) London, Decopibor 31. ■; Both . political ■ parties pay ■■ a warm tribute to the'lato Earl Percy, heir to tho Duke .of Northumberland and formerly /Under-Seoretaryi. for /Foreign/ Affairs i in ,- the- last ■ Unionist ■ Government,'

THE PERCY LINE-THE NEW- HEIR. Earl Porcy, a biographical nolo concerning. whom, appeared, in tlio last issue, of The Dominion, leaves; iio,V lieir.. and v tho;--Diikedom';'6f-; Northumberland'/'will therefore; go.: to:,the" second ■•surviving; son of tho; present Duke of Northumberland,Lord Alan - lan Porcy, • aged • 29. Lord Alan:-.is a captain of the. Grenadier Guards, .served in' South Africa in 1901,! and is now with'the Egyptian Army,. : ,V' The present Duko ,bf; Nbrthmhberland has;had thirteen children/' of.whom, the late. Earl PeVcy. was the third, and 'the yn'ew Earl Percy; (Lotd'Alah):is;the. ninth;. Two;;;daughters- -precededvthe,Vdeceased': hejr, and ' betweeri him and the;-, new* heif;were ,two- Sons (both dead) and three daughters.'. There "are two younger surviving brothers.. The issue of tho Duke, of ; ; whom eight:;now;"survive;" out of .thir-; teooi'aro as under: : ' .'. : i'j-: r;; ,The , lat'6. 1 -Lady " Louisa vElizabeth Percy,' ;• .'born 1809,.died.1893. ' . '■: LWy: Edith; Eleanor-Peroy)"-,twin'with' • . preceding. .• r\ -'.y . The late.Earl. Percy, heir.to Diikedo'iiV: v • Henry Algernon Georgo Percy, 8.A., : 'V''.'M'iP.'■ : •for'. ; Sl:■'Kensillpoil.•'(jC!6nserva-; , tive), late -Under-Secretary' of ..State ; . for Foreign A (Fairs, prev. fftr • India; a D.L. for -Northumberland, ~:.■:, arid i .'Trdstee i of the Nat. I'ortr. Gall.: born 1871. - The ;late ', Hon. Josceline Percy (son); ■■ born 1872, died 1898. ; ;■' • Lady' Margaret; Percy, born 1873. ; . - i : . Lady Victoria Alexandrina Percy,'.bom •1875. The ; late - Hon. Bslldl William Percy, '' • born 1877, died 1880.";h'i' ;. .Lady Mary- Percy, born : . 1878.;: ;' ■v' Lord Alan lan: Percy, alid heir, Capt. . :,Grcn. Gds., sorved fii'S. Africa 1901, :; -,';, .'now', with Egyptian AiJiyi born. 'v'.'; Lord William • Itichard Percy, 8.A., • .barrister-at-law, born .1882. .;■ •: The late Lord James. Percyi' born 1885, ; died 1903. • ' '-v- ' ■ ,' Lord Eustace Sutherland' Campbell, • 'Percy, 8.A., born 1837. Lady Muriel Evelyn Nora Percy, born ,Tho name of Percy dates from the times of ; William the . Conqueror/ wheii William ;depercy was greatly in l favour with: ..William', - who: gave ' him, a . barony j-. he accompanied the Ist Crusade;and ,died, within;, sight... of Jenisalem,vlo9o. ' The family, however,; did not really descend in a direct main line from'; this William de Percy, for far the reign of Henry II his j.mhle ~ descendants became extinct, and the descent was through Agnes; who married Joscellne, a son of Geolfrey, Duke oMjOUvain, on the express condition thathe and his posterity should bear the surname of Percy, and • assume - the: arms; .of-;-her., family, relinquishing their oivn. Aeaiii, ;in-1070; tho ■ male line '.became ex-'(.inc-t. jtist five hundred years after tho lntm'iafte of do Percy with Joscelinbc of ;Lbln : ain. •: The present ;:.Dakedom of NortliUhiberland was created in 1700 in the ancient family of, Smithson,;'.whb assumed ths name of Percy and have borne it ever since. Sir Hugh Smithson, who :becan»o tho first duke, married; a;grand" .dniisliti'r of a daughter of the'last earl.: So, through tho female branch, the Percv family is maiatained in its ■linbrokeil line;- v-' '■; Tho 'first ' Earl ' of i . Northumborldndi. created . in . 1377, was ; father of. tho '.renowned : "Hotspur," ' of. :"Tho Battle of Chevy .Chase.":-'. "Not; one . of . the . Knglish; noble houses," observes; one writer, ;"is .so distinguished, as the Percie's; throughout the whole range of English ; hjstoryl' It is remarkable alike for.* its long unbroken lino, its high achievements, its general culturo.'of arts and of iotters."