Percy Wyndham (1835-1911)
Percy Wyndham may refer to: * Percy Charles Wyndham (1757–1833), English Member of Parliament for Chichester 1782–1784, and for Midhurst 1790–1796 * Percy Wyndham (soldier) (1833–1879), British soldier and adventurer in the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap * Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), English Conservative Party politician * Percy Wyndham, 1st Earl of Thomond See also * Percy The English surname Percy is of Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came into use ...

Percy Charles Wyndham
Percy Charles Wyndham (27 September 1757 – 5 August 1833)''The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760''. 2 November 1757. was an English politician. He was the second son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont and Alicia Maria, daughter of the 2nd Baron Carpenter, and brother of Hon. Charles William Wyndham. He was educated at Westminster School from 1765 to 1774, and then at Christ Church, Oxford in 1774. Wyndam was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Chichester from 1782 to 1784, when he lost his seat due to his support for Charles James Fox. At the 1790 election his older brother the 3rd Earl of Egremont returned both Percy and Charles as MPs for his pocket borough of Midhurst. In Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and over ...
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Percy Wyndham (soldier)
Colonel Percy Wyndham (22 September 1833 – 27 January 1879) was an English soldier and adventurer who served in the armed forces of several countries and saw active service during the Italian Risorgimento and the American Civil War. Life Wyndham claimed to be the son of Colonel Charles Wyndham, a regular soldier who served in various Light Dragoon regiments of the British Army and was an ADC to the Duke of Wellington before becoming Lieutenant Colonel of the 36th Regiment of Foot. Wyndham had been born in 1833 on board the ship ''Arab'' in the Downs. He had begun his career at the age of fifteen, fighting in the Students' Corps during the French Revolution of 1848.Samuel Toombs, ''New Jersey Troops in the Gettysburg Campaign from June 5 to July 31, 1863'' (Orange, N. J.: The Evening Mail Publishing House, 1888)pp. 402–406/ref> He said that in July of the same year he was commissioned into the French Navy as a "marine ensign", a form of midshipman, before briefly serving i ...
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Percy Wyndham (1835–1911)
Percy Scawen Wyndham DL JP MP (30 January 1835 – 13 March 1911) was a British soldier, Conservative Party politician, collector and intellectual. He was one of the original members of The Souls, and built Clouds House at East Knoyle, Wiltshire. Background and education Wyndham was a younger son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and his wife Mary Fanny Blunt, daughter of the Reverend William Blunt, and was educated at Eton. He served in the Coldstream Guards and achieved the rank of captain. Political career In 1860, Wyndham was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Cumberland West (succeeding his uncle Sir Henry Wyndham), a seat he held until 1885. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Sussex. He owned the Wiltshire manor of Pertwood from 1877 until his death, and he became a member of Wiltshire County Council and was High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1896. Family Wyndham married Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbel ...
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Percy Wyndham, 1st Earl Of Thomond
Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond (c. 1713–1774) was a British Member of Parliament and an Irish peer. Origins He was the younger of the two sons of Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (c.1688–1740) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, Secretary at War in 1712, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713 and Tory leader in the House of Commons during the reign of King George I (1714–1727) and during the early years of King George II (1727–1760). His mother was Catherine Seymour, daughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748), KG, and sister of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (1684–1750), created in 1749 Earl of Egremont and Baron Cockermouth, with special remainder to his nephew Charles Wyndham (1710–1763), Percy's elder brother, who duly became 2nd Earl of Egremont in 1750. Inheritance When Percy was 28 years old in 1741, Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond died without issue and in his will left all his Irish estates to him as the ...
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