LEADING CONSERVATIVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1059, 25 August 1930, Page 9

LEADING CONSERVATIVE

DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND DEAD AT 50 YEARS FOLLOWING SEVERE ILLNESS LONDON, Saturday. The death has occurred of the Duke of Northumberland, aged 50 years. He has been ill for some weeks and

anxiety was expressed for him in recent bulletins. The eighth Duke of Isorthumberland (Alan lan Percy) was the fourth son of the seventh duke and Lady Edith Campbell, daughter of the Duke of -Argyll. After leaving Eton he joined the Grenadier Guards, serving in the South African War and also in the Sudan in 1908. On the death of his only surviving brother in December, 1909. he succeeded'to the courtesy title of Earl Percy. In the following year he married Lady Helen Gordon-Lennox, the Duke of Richmond’s youngest daughter. During the last war he served with his old regiment and later on the staff at the War Office. In 1918 ho succeeded to the dukedom. Much of his wealth was derived from mining royalties. He was a prominent figure at th€* sessions of the Sankey Coal Commission, where he vigorously denounced the claims of the men. Politically the duke belonged to the extreme right wing, or the “D#e-hards,*i' of the Conservative Party.