NORTH UMBER LAND

Algernon Percy , 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke of North umber land 1742–1817). b. North umber land house, Charing Cro , London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805; midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to 1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr. baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, North umber land 27 Nov. 1816; LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launces ton castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 North umber land batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April 1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution; president of Royal united service institution; president of Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isle worth; bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome 1856. d. Alnwick castle, North umber land 12 Feb. 1865. bur. in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. Numismatic Chronicle v 20 (1865); G.M. xviii 504–11 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) portrait ; G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery (1840); Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp. 129, 132, views of funeral, . ; Waagen’s Galleries of art 1857, 265–69 and 465–74; O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 822.