page_title: Henry Percy, Earl Percy
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Percy, Earl Percy / Background
caption_attribution_description: Statesmen No. 689: Caricature of Lord Warkworth, M.P.. Caption read "South Kensington".
context_page_description: Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy, styled Lord Warkworth until 1899, was a British Conservative politician. He held political office under Arthur Balfour as Under-Secretary of State for India and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs before his early death in 1909.
context_section_description: Percy was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, and his wife Lady Edith, daughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, and Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle, were his younger brothers.
  He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
caption: Earl Percy as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, September 1897
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