The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-22 00:00:00

Death of the Duke of Northumberland

We have to announce the death of the Duke o
Northumberland, which oecurred between 11 anti
12 o'clock yesterday morning at Alnwick Castle,
his ancestral seat in Northumberland. The deceased
nobleman, who had only recently arrived at the
ancient seat of the Pereys, was taken suddenly ill
in the early part of last week. The nature of the
attack fully satisfied his medical attendants that the
venerable peer was at last succumbing from extreme
age. In consequence the whole of his family were
summoned to Alnwick Castle, and were present at
his death. The late Right Hon. George Percy, fifth
Duke and Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Beverley,
county York, Earl and Baron Percy, Baron Lucy,
Baron Poynings, Fitz-Payne, Bryan, Latimer,
Warkworth, and Lovaine of Alnwick, Northumber-
land, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and a baronet
wss the eldest son of Algernon, first Earl of
Beverley, second son of Hugh, first Duke of
Northumberland by his wife Isabella Susannah,
second daughter of Mr. Peter Burrell, and sister of
Peter, first Lord D wydyr. The late Duke was born
on the 22d of June 1778, and married, on the 2 2d of
June, 1801, Louisa Harcourt, third daughter of the
Hon. James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie,
second son of John, third Earl of Bute, and sister of
James, first Baron Wharncliffe, by whom, who died
on the 30th ofo u January, u
borna 1818, be leaves surviving
issue
Sept. 26, 1802; Algernon
Lady Louisa,
aary,
George Earl Percy (now Duke of Northumberland),
born May 2, 1810, and who married May 26, 1815,
Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Henry
Drummond, of Albury-park,
Surrey; Lord Joscelinc
William, born July 17, 1811, and married August
8, 1818, Margaret, only daughter of Sir David
Davidson, and widow of the bight Hon. Sir Robert
Grant ; Lady Margaret, born May 16, 1813, and
married September 23, 1841, Lord Hatherton ; and
Major- General the Hon. henry Hugh Manvers, born
August 22, 1817. The deceased Duke succeeded his
father as Earl Of Beverley in October, 1830, and
succeeded to the dukedom of Northumberland on
the death of his cousin, Algernon Percy, fourth
Duke, February 12, 1865. The Duke as far back
as 1804 was appointed a Lord of the Treasury, and
in 1807 was appointed a Commissioner for Indian
Affairs. In 1842 he was appointed Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard, which office he held up to
the dissolution of Sir Robert Peel's Government in
1816, and, consequent on his appointment, was
made a Privy Councillor. His Grace was Con-
stable of Launceston Castle. Previously to his
accession to the Earldom of Beverley he sat in the
House of Commons for the borough of Beeralston,
one of the boroughs disfranchised by the Reform
Bill of 1832.
The deceased is succeeded in the dukedom and
family honours by his eldest son, Algernon George
Earl
Percy, above mentioned. The present Duke
was educated at St. JDhn's College, Cambridge, and
represented the Northern Division of Northumber-
land (as Lord Lovain9 from July, 1852, till July,
1865. Ile was appuiLted a IJ,)rd of the Admiralty
in 'March, 1858, and subsequently, from February
to June, 1859, was Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, on receiving which appointment he was
made a Privy Councillor. He had formerly been
in the Grenadier Guards. His Grace is a Deputy-
Lieutenant of Northumberland, and was in 1862
appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Northumber-
land Militia.
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THE SHEFFIELD TIZADES' UNIONS.—SIIEFFIELD,
Wecluesday.—A. meeting of the Executive of the Orga-
nised Trades was held llere to-night, when a resolution
was passed denouncing tile iesolutions recently agreed to
by the Sawgriuders' Utiion, and refusing to have any
communion with that Union till it bad expressed contri-
tion for past misdeeds, gni given a guarantee for their
futuro good conduct.