wick in command of his Grenadiers. He retired from active service in 1862, and died on December 3, 1877, having attained the rank of lieutenant-general. For his Crimean services he had been honoured by France and Turkey, with the Cross of the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Mejidie respectively. Lord Henry Percy never married. His sister, Lady Margaret, married Edward Richard Littleton, second Lord Hatherton. Another sister, Lady Louisa, died unmarried in 1883, aged eighty-one years.

Algernon George Percy, sixth Duke of Northumberland, was born May 2, 1810. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and served for some time in the Grenadier Guards. He represented Beeralston in Parliament from 1831-2, and North Northumberland from 1852-65, becoming a Lord of the Admiralty in 1858, and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859. From 1878-80 he was Lord Privy Seal in the last administration of Lord Beaconsfield. Among other offices held by the Duke were those of Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland, Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Surrey, and Hon. Colonel of the Northumberland Militia. In 1842 St. John's College, Cambridge, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He married, in 1845, Louisa, daughter and heir of Henry Drummond, Esq., M.P., of Albury Park, Surrey, and left issue two sons, Henry George, seventh and present Duke, and Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy of Guyscliffe, co. Warwick, M.P. for Westminster (1882-5). and for St. George's, London (1885-7), sometime Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, and Hon. Colonel 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. The sixth Duke died on January 2, 1899.

Henry George Percy, seventh Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.C., was born on May 29, 1846; represented North Northumberland in Parliament (1868-85), served as Treasurer in the Household of the late Queen; and is Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland and Hon. Colonel of the Northumberland Militia. He married, on December

23, 1868, Lady Edith Campbell, daughter of the late George Douglas, Duke of Argyll, and has issue five sons and as many daughters. His eldest son, Henry Algernon George, Earl Percy, has been Member of Parliament for South Kensington since 1895, and is best known by his two books descriptive of travels in Asia Minor.

Here we will leave the History of the Great House of Percy. The fresh and fruitful branch engrafted upon the parent tree has thriven broadly and well; the proud old sap mingles freely with the new: stock and scion have. united their finest qualities, and are as one. The Percy stem, unlike that of Douglas, put forth few offshoots, and afforded no nourishment to parasitic growths. The pine indeed might serve as its emblem rather than the oak. Yet it seems difficult of belief that a race so ancient should have left no male heirs; and such heirs may yet be found labouring humbly upon some stony Irish hillside, or sharing in the strenuous life of the great American Republic. In their absence the honours of Percy are worthily borne by the inheritors of the Percy estates, through whose veins the blood of Hotspur courses yet, and to whom England looks with honest pride, as the representatives of a splendid and stainless name.

INDEX TO VOLUME II

[Names of Persons are printed in ordinary type; all other names
in italics. Numerals refer to pages of Vol. II. The letter
"n" signifies “note."]

Alington, William, third Lord, 398 Argyll, Dukes of, see Campbell