"4th Duke of Northumberland" Algernon Percy Hand Written Letter Todd Mueller COA

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Admiral  Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland , KG , PC  (15 December 1792 – 12 February 1865), styled Lord Algernon Percy  from birth until 1816 and known as Lord Prudhoe  between 1816 and 1847, was  a  British  naval  commander , explorer  and Conservative  politician. Northumberland was the second son of General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland , and his second wife Frances Julia , daughter of Peter Burrell . He was educated at Eton  and St John's College, Cambridge .  Northumberland entered the Royal Navy  in March 1805, aged 12, on board HMS Tribune  and served in the Napoleonic Wars . In 1815, when only 22, he was promoted to captain , taking command of HMS Cossack  in August, and commanding her until she was broken up some 10 months later. The following year, aged 23, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Prudhoe , of Prudhoe Castle in the County of Northumberland (Prudhoe  being a town in Northumberland ). Between 1826 and 1829 he was part of an expedition to Egypt , Nubia  and The Levant . In 1834, he travelled to the Cape of Good Hope  with John Herschel  to study the southern constellations.  Northumberland became the first president of the newly formed National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck  in 1834, and went on to become the president of its successor, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution . In 1851 he offered a prize of £200 for a new design of self-righting lifeboat , won by James Beeching , which became the standard model for the new Royal National Lifeboat Institution fleet.  In 1862 he became a full admiral  in the Royal Navy on the Reserved List. Northumberland succeeded his childless elder brother  in the dukedom in 1847. In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council  and appointed First Lord of the Admiralty , with a seat in the cabinet , by the Earl of Derby , a post he held until the fall of the government  in December 1852. In 1853 he was made a Knight of the Garter .  Northumberland married, aged 49, Lady Eleanor Grosvenor , daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster , on 25 August 1842 at St George's, Hanover Square . They had no children. As a result of gout  in his right hand, he died in February 1865, aged 72 at Alnwick Castle  and was buried in the Northumberland Vault , within Westminster Abbey . He was succeeded in his titles by his cousin, George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley , except for the barony of Percy , which passed through the female line to his great-nephew, John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl . The Duchess of Northumberland died on 4 May 1911. He was a fellow of the Royal Society , the Society of Antiquaries , the Royal Geographical Society , the Royal Astronomical Society , president of the Royal United Services Institute  and the Royal Institution , a director of the British Institution  and a trustee of the British Museum .  Northumberland was a good friend of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin , and Prudhoe Bay , on the north coast of Alaska , was named after him

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