Sir Algernon Eustace Hugh Heber-Percy, KCVO (born 2 January 1944) is a British landowner, farmer and public official. Heber-Percy was born in 1944, to Daphne Parker Bowles and the army officer

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Algernon George William Heber-Percy (1904–1961), who remodelled a large part of the gardens at the Heber-Percy family's ancestral home, Hodnet Hall,

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'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 June 2019 Having served in the Army for four years, Heber-Percy returned to live in Hodnet Hall in 1966; he studied agriculture at a local college and has managed the family's farming estates thereafter. He has also extensively renovated the house with his wife Jane, daughter of the 3rd Viscount Leverhulme. He has been involved in a number of organisations, including periods as a trustee of the

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and as a member of the

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's regional committee. Since 1988, he has been president of the Shropshire and Mid Wales Hospice, now called Severn Hospice. In 1986, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Shropshire and served as high sheriff for the 1987–88 year; he was appointed vice-lord lieutenant in 1990 and then served as

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from 1996 to 2019. Heber-Percy retired as lord lieutenant in January 2019, at the age of 75. He had been appointed a Knight Commander of the

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in 2014.

Honours

He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Royal Victorian Order on 31 December 2013 by HM Queen Elizabeth II. This allowed him the title "

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" and the

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"KCVO" for Life. * Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector

He was made a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John. Within the Order this allowed him the post nominal letters "KStJ" for life. Awarded upon taking office as

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. * He served as honorary colonel of 5th Battalion the Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry from 1998 to 1999. * He served as honorary colonel of the

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from 1999 to 2005. * In 2017 He was awarded the

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(D.Litt.) from the

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