Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, (20 May 1810 – 2 January 1899), styled Lord Lovaine between 1830 and 1865 and Earl Percy between 1865 and 1867, was a British Conservative politician. He held office under the Earl of Derby as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859 and under

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between 1878 and 1880.

Background

Northumberland was the eldest son of George Percy, Lord Lovaine, eldest son of

Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley FSA (21 January 1750 – 21 October 1830), styled Lord Algernon Percy between 1766 and 1786 and known as the Lord Lovaine between 1786 and 1790, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 17 ...

, a younger son of

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. From his father's succession as second Earl of Beverley in 1830, Percy was styled Lord Lovaine. In 1865, Lord Beverley inherited the dukedom of Northumberland from his first cousin, Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, and thenceforth Lovaine was styled Earl Percy. His mother was Louisa, daughter of the Hon. James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, second son of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. Lord Josceline Percy and Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Percy were his younger brothers. Northumberland attended

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Political career

Northumberland sat in the House of Commons as

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for Bere Alston between 1831 and 1832 and for Northumberland North between 1852 and 1865. He served Civil Lord of the Admiralty between 1858 and 1859 and as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859 in Lord Derby's second government. The latter year he was also sworn of the

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. In 1867 he succeeded in the dukedom on the death of his father and entered the

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. He joined the Earl of Beaconsfield's second government as

in 1878, with a seat in the cabinet, a post he held until the fall of the government in 1880. Northumberland was also

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between 1877 and 1899. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1886.

Family

Northumberland married Louisa, daughter of Henry Drummond, in 1845. She died in December 1890. Northumberland survived her by nine years and died in January 1899, aged 88. The Duke and his wife were buried in the Percy family vault in

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. He was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son, Henry, Earl Percy. Northumberland's second son

Lord Algernon Percy :'' Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley was also known as Lord Algernon Percy from 1766-86.'' Colonel Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy (2 October 1851 – 28 December 1933) was a British career soldier and Conservative politician who sat in t ...

was also a politician. At the Percy seat Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, he enlisted Anthony Salvin to do considerable interior works in the

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, and purchased the collection of paintings amassed by the Roman painter

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, to add to the pictures at Alnwick, swelled by the collection formerly at Northumberland House, The Strand, London, which was demolished in 1874.

References

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