PERCY, Henry (c.1604-59), of Whitehall, and of Syon House, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1604, 4th but 2nd surv. s. of Henry Percy, 3rd earl of Northumberland, and Dorothy, da. of Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex.CP. educ. privately (Michael Burton; one Nicholson) 1613-6; Isleworth (Thomas Willis) 1616-7;HMC 6th Rep. 230-1. Christ Church, Oxf. 7 Dec. 1624;Al. Ox. travelled abroad (France), aft. 22 Oct. 1629-aft. Jan. 1631.SP16/150, f. 148; CSP Dom. 1629-31, p. 480. unm. cr. Baron Percy of Alnwick, 28 June 1643.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 52. d. 26 Mar. 1659.CP.

Offices Held

Mercantile: member, Virg. Co. bef. 1623.Recs. Virginia Co. ed. Kingsbury, iii. 122.

Court: master of horse to prince of Wales bef. 5 Dec. 1639.HMC De Lisle and Dudley, vi. 180, 209; Bodl. Rawl. D.395. Ld. in waiting to Henrietta Maria, June 1648.Bodl. Clarendon, 31, f. 106. PC, 23 Oct. 1653–d. Chamberlain, 23 Oct. 1653–d.CCSP ii. 265.

Military: col. of ft. royal army, 1639.Rushworth, Hist. Collns. iii. 926. Capt. of horse, royal lifeguard, Sept. 1640–22 July 1641.CSP Dom. 1640–1, pp. 37, 73, 77–81; HMC De Lisle and Dudley, vi. 328–9, 335; CJ ii. 220a. Gov. Jersey 6 June 1641.Procs LP iv. 228n. Cdr. (roy.) magazine at Oxf. bef. 5 Nov. 1642.Bodl. Rawl. D.395, f. 3. Col. of horse, 2 Feb. 1643; col of ft. bef. 28 July 1643.Royalist Ordnance Pprs. ed. Roy, i. 20n, 263. Gen. artillery, 22 May 1643-Jan. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 40; Perfect Passages of Each Dayes Proceedings, no. 13 (8–22 Jan. 1645), sig. N2v (E.25.17); The Parliament Scout, no. 83 (16–23 Jan. 1645), 663 (E.23.18). Gov. Guernsey ?bef. 27 May 1643, by 12 Nov. 1649-bef. 23 Feb. 1650.Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, ed. M.A.E. Green (1857), 213; CCSP ii. 30, 46.

Parlimentarian

PERCY, Henry (c.1604-1659), of Syon House, Isleworth, Mdx.; later of Whitehall and Alnwick Castle, Northumb.

: of Whitehall and of Syon House, Mdx.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, A. Van Dyck, 1638;NT, Petworth. oil on canvas, follower of A. Van Dyck, 1640-9.NT, Petworth.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PERCY, Henry (c.1604-59), of Whitehall, and of Syon House, Mdx.

Will

not found.CSP Dom. 1658-9, p. 335.

Estates

acquired ‘four shares of land in Virginia’ from his cousin Henry Rich, later 1st earl of Holland, 1622. Recs. Virginia Co. ed. Kingsbury, iii. 122. Lands in Cardigan and ?Pemb.CCAM 829. Granted by Charles I a pension of £1,000 p.a. 5 May 1641; transferred to trustees soon after; confirmed 1 May 1644.CSP Dom. 1640-1, p. 570; Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 392.

Oxford 1644

Yes

1640 Volume

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