Biography of Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland 1914-1988

On 18th November 1911 [his father] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 31] and [his mother] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Charles Gordon-Lennox 7th Duke Richmond [aged 65] and [his grandmother] Isabel Sophie Craven. He the son of Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 65] and Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland [aged 62]. They were fifth cousins.

On 6th April 1914 Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland was born to [his father] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 33] and [his mother] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 27].

On 14th May 1918 [his grandfather] Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland [aged 71] died. He was buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lesbury [Map]. His son [his father] Alan [aged 38] succeeded 8th Duke Northumberland, 5th Earl Beverley, 11th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [his mother] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 31] by marriage Duchess Northumberland.

On 23rd August 1930 [his father] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland [aged 50] died. His son [his brother] Henry [aged 18] succeeded 9th Duke Northumberland, 6th Earl Beverley, 12th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.

On 29th April 1939 [his brother-in-law] John Sutherland Egerton 6th Duke Sutherland [aged 23] and [his sister] Diana Evelyn Percy Duchess of Sutherland [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland and [his mother] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 52]. He the son of John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton 4th Earl Ellesmere [aged 66] and Violet Lambton Countess Ellesmere [aged 58]. They were fourth cousins.

On 21st May 1940 Henry George Alan Percy 9th Duke Northumberland [aged 27] was killed in action at Pecq in Belgium, serving with the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, in a brave charge against overwhelming odds that was described as suicidal. His body is interred in the Esquelmes War Cemetery. His brother Hugh [aged 26] succeeded 10th Duke Northumberland, 7th Earl Beverley, 13th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.

On 24th August 1944 John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton 4th Earl Ellesmere [aged 71] died. His son [his brother-in-law] John [aged 29] succeeded 5th Earl Ellesmere, 5th Viscount Brackley. [his sister] Diana Evelyn Percy [aged 26] by marriage Countess Ellesmere.

On 12th June 1946 Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 32] and Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Duchess Northumberland. She the daughter of Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 51] and Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 45]. He the son of Alan Ian Percy 8th Duke Northumberland and Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 59]. They were fourth cousins.

21st March 1949. Memorial at St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham [Map] to Captain John Eustace Smith who died steeplechasing riding Dancing Sun in a chase at Catterick on March 19, 1949. A farmer, he came from a Northumberland farming family. He was invalided from the Northumberland Hussars early in the war. He left a wife and a daughter. Possibly the John Eustace-Smith who rode in the 1947 and 1948 Grand Nationals on Ulster Monarch and Brighter Sandy respectively.

A notice from the Berwick Advertiser, Thursday 31st March 1949:

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A memorial service for Captain John Eustace Smith, the well-known amateur jockey, who died after an injury at Catterick races, was held at St. Bartholomews Church, Whittingham. The Rev. P. G. Forman, Archdeacon of Lindisfame, assisted by the Rev. G. Henderson, Vicar of Whittingham, conducted the service. Included among the mourners were. The Duke of Northumberland [aged 34]; Capt. R. Carr Ellison; Major A. S. C. Brown; Mrs J. G. G. Rea; Lord Joicey, Colonel R. Taylor, Major and Mrs A. C. Straker. Colonel J. W. Sale and Mr E. F. Collingwood.

On 10th January 1953 [his brother-in-law] Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott 9th Duke Buccleuch 11th Duke Queensberry [aged 29] and Jane McNeill Duchess of Buccleuch [aged 23] were married at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. The ceremony was attended by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [aged 26] and the Duke of Edinburgh [aged 31] as well as a number of other members of the Royal family. He the son of [his father-in-law] Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 58] and [his mother-in-law] Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 52].

On 1st July 1953 [his son] Henry Percy 11th Duke of Northumberland was born to Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 39] and [his wife] Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 31]. One of his godparents was Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [aged 27].

On 16th November 1956 [his son] Ralph Percy 12th Duke of Northumberland was born to Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 42] and [his wife] Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 34]. He married 21st July 1979 Isobel Jane Richard Duchess of Northumberland.

On 8th May 1957 James Stewart-Murray 9th Duke of Atholl [aged 77] died unmarried. His fourth cousin Iain [aged 25] succeeded 10th Duke Atholl, 11th Marquess Atholl, 12th Earl Atholl, 13th Earl Tullibardine, 6th Baron Glenlyon of Glenlyon in Perthshire. Baron Strange Knockin abeyant. His fourth cousin once removed Hugh [aged 43] succeeded 9th Baron Percy.

On 1st February 1963 George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 5th Duke of Sutherland [aged 74] died. His third cousin once removed [his brother-in-law] John [aged 47] succeeded 6th Duke Sutherland, 6th Marquess Stafford, 8th Earl Gower, 9th Baron Gower, 13th Baronet Gower of Stittenham in Yorkshire. [his sister] Diana Evelyn Percy [aged 45] by marriage Duchess Sutherland.His niece Elizabeth [aged 41] succeeded 24th Countess Sutherland.

On 13th June 1965 [his mother] Helen Gordon-Lennox Duchess Northumberland [aged 78] died.

On 4th October 1973 [his father-in-law] Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 78] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Walter [aged 50] succeeded 9th Duke Buccleuch, 11th Duke Queensberry, 9th Earl Doncaster, 9th Baron Scott of Tynedale. Jane McNeill Duchess of Buccleuch [aged 43] by marriage Duchess Buccleuch.

On 16th June 1978 [his sister] Diana Evelyn Percy Duchess of Sutherland [aged 60] died.

On 21st July 1979 Ralph Percy 12th Duke of Northumberland [aged 22] and Isobel Jane Richard Duchess of Northumberland [aged 21] were married. He the son of Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 65] and Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 57].

On 11th October 1988 Hugh Algernon Percy 10th Duke Northumberland [aged 74] died. His son Henry [aged 35] succeeded 11th Duke Northumberland, 8th Earl Beverley, 10th Baron Percy, 14th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire.

On 19th September 2012 [his former wife] Elizabeth Diana Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Northumberland [aged 90] died.