Lord Algernon Percy
Colonel Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy (2 October 1851 – 28 December 1933) was a British career soldier and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1882 to 1887.Percy was born at Albury Park, Surrey, the second son of the 6th Duke of Northumberland and his wife Louisa Drummond, daughter of Henry Drummond of Albury Park.[4] Percy transferred as a major from the 3rd Berkshires to the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers on 24 June 1886,[3] and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 15 July 1895.[6] In the 1902 Coronation Honours list he was on 26 June 1902 appointed an aide-de-camp to King Edward VII, with the regular rank of colonel.Percy married Lady Victoria Edgcumbe (a daughter of the 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe) on 3 August 1880 and they had two children: Percy and his wife had made their home at Guy's Cliffe, near Warwick.