The Stately Homes of EnglandJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The Stately Homes of England
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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The two sons of the first duke (as we have seen) bore the same names
as the two sons of his successor the second duke—Hugh and Algernon
Percy. The two brothers, the sons of the first duke, married two
sisters, daughters of Mr. Burrell.[22] With Duke Algernon the line of
Hugh, the elder of the sons of the first duke, became extinct; and,
consequently, the succession to the dukedom passed to the descendants
of that other Algernon who was the younger son of the first duke. This
Algernon, who on the death of his father became Baron Lovaine, in 1798
was created Earl of Beverley: he died in 1830. George Percy, his son,
then succeeded as Earl of Beverley; and subsequently, in 1865, at that
time being in the 87th year of his age, this venerable nobleman became
the fifth Duke of Northumberland. He died August 21, 1867; and was
succeeded by his eldest surviving son (by his marriage with Louisa,
daughter of the Hon. A. Stuart Wortley). The present peer, Algernon
George Percy, sixth Duke and eighteenth Earl of Northumberland, Earl
Percy, Earl of Beverley, Baron Warkworth, Baron Lovaine of Alnwick,
and a baronet, was born May 2nd, 1810, and was educated at Eton. He
entered the army in 1827, and retired in 1836. In 1858 he was a Lord of
the Admiralty, in 1859 Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and from
1831 to 1865 sat in Parliament, first for Beeralston and afterwards for
North Northumberland. He is Colonel of the Northumberland Militia, Hon.
Colonel of the Percy Northumberland Volunteer Artillery, and President
of the National Lifeboat Institution. In 1845 his grace married Louisa,
daughter of the late Henry Drummond, Esq., M.P., of Abury Park, Surrey,
by whom he has issue living two sons, viz., Henry George Percy, Earl of
Percy, married, in 1868, to Lady Edith Campbell, eldest daughter of the
Duke of Argyll, by whom he has issue; and Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur
Percy. His grace is patron of twenty-two livings, nineteen of which are
in Northumberland and one each in Yorkshire, Dorsetshire, and Surrey.
The arms of the Duke of Northumberland are: Quarterly, 1st and 4th
Lovaine and Lucy quarterly (viz., 1st and 4th, _or_, a lion rampant,
_azure_, for Lovaine, 2nd and 3rd, _gules_, three luces or pikes,
hauriant, for Lucy), 2nd and 3rd, _azure_, five lozenges conjoined
in fesse, _or_, for Percy. Crest: On a chapeau, _gules_, turned up,
_ermine_, a lion statant, tail extended, _azure_. Supporters: Dexter, a
lion, _azure_; sinister, a lion, guardant, _or_, gorged with a collar
compony, _argent_ and _azure_.
His grace’s other seats are, Keilder, Prudhoe, and Warkworth castles,
in Northumberland; Sion House, Middlesex; Stanwick Park, Yorkshire;
Albury Park; and Northumberland House, Charing Cross.
Thus having brought down our sketch of the lords of Alnwick, from the
early days in English history that immediately followed the Norman
Conquest to the times now present, we return to their noble castle on
the banks of the Aln.
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