Algernon Percy (diplomat)

Algernon Percy (1779–1833), was a British diplomat.

For other people with the same name, see Algernon Percy (disambiguation).

Percy was the second son of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley and Isabella Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell. He as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons from 1825 to 1832, succeeding Charles Richard Vaughan.[1]

Family

Percy married in a morganatic arrangement Anne-Marie Prestilly-FitzGerald, illegitimate daughter of Lord Charles FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale and Anne-Marie Preston-Prestilly.[2] Their surviving children were:

  • Mary Preston Prestilly-Percy, born in Switzerland in 1830, married Henry Hume, a Scottish gentleman.
  • Henry Preston Prestilly-Percy, born in Southampton, England around 1832, a diplomat in Peru, married Eliza Díaz de la Peña Lady of Huasan in Argentina, legitimate daughter and heir of es:Miguel Díaz de la Peña earl of Huasan and Josefa Cabero Gomez Marin.[3]

References
  1. "Beverley, Earl of (GB, 1790)". Archived from the original on 21 April 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
  2. "Directory of Royal Genealogical Data". Hull University. Archived from the original on 28 November 2007.
  3. http://FamilySearch.org: 19 September 2016. Catholic Church parishes, Catamarca


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