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	==Political career==		==Political career==
	Percy was returned to Parliament for [[Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)\|Kensington South]] in a November 1895 by-election, replacing the ennobled [[Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk\|Sir Algernon Borthwick]].<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm \|title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Keighley to Kilkenny \|access-date=17 November 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002190829/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm \|archive-date=2 October 2018 \|url-status=~~dead~~ }}</ref> In August 1902 he was appointed [[Under-Secretary of State for India]] in the [[Unionist Government 1895-1905\|Conservative administration]] of [[Arthur Balfour]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|articlename=Mr Balfour´s Ministry - full list of appointments \|day_of_week=Saturday \|date=9 August 1902 \|page_number=5 \|issue=36842}}</ref> a post he held until 1903, and was then [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] under Balfour from 1903 to 1905.		Percy was returned to Parliament for [[Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)\|Kensington South]] in a November 1895 by-election, replacing the ennobled [[Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk\|Sir Algernon Borthwick]].<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm \|title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Keighley to Kilkenny \|access-date=17 November 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002190829/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm \|archive-date=2 October 2018 \|url-status=unfit }}</ref> In August 1902 he was appointed [[Under-Secretary of State for India]] in the [[Unionist Government 1895-1905\|Conservative administration]] of [[Arthur Balfour]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|articlename=Mr Balfour´s Ministry - full list of appointments \|day_of_week=Saturday \|date=9 August 1902 \|page_number=5 \|issue=36842}}</ref> a post he held until 1903, and was then [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] under Balfour from 1903 to 1905.

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==

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| name = Earl Percy
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| caption = Earl Percy, photographed by Sir [[John Benjamin Stone]]
| order1 = [[Under-Secretary of State for India]]
| term_start1 = 18 August 1902
| term_end1 = 9 October 1903
| monarch1 = [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]
| primeminister1 = [[Arthur Balfour]]
| predecessor1 = [[Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke|The Earl of Hardwicke]]
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| order2 = [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Under-Secretary of State <br>for Foreign Affairs]]
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| term_end2 = 4 December 1905
| monarch2 = [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]
| primeminister2 = [[Arthur Balfour]]
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'''Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy''' (21 January 1871 – 30 December 1909), sometimes styled as '''Lord Percy''' or, until 1899, '''Lord Warkworth''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|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.

==Background==

[[File:Henry Percy, Earl Percy Vanity Fair 2 September 1897.jpg|thumb|left|Earl Percy as caricatured by Spy ([[Leslie Ward]]) in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine 1868-1914)|Vanity Fair]]'', September 1897]]

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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Percy, Earl, (Henry Algernon George) (21 Jan. 1871–22 Dec. 1909)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-189841|access-date=2021-04-03|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u189841|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref><ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://thepeerage.com/p1050.htm#i10500 thepeerage.com Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy]</ref>

He was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref name=":0" />

==Political career==
Percy was returned to Parliament for [[Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)|Kensington South]] in a November 1895 by-election, replacing the ennobled [[Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk|Sir Algernon Borthwick]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Keighley to Kilkenny |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002190829/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm |archive-date=2 October 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In August 1902 he was appointed [[Under-Secretary of State for India]] in the [[Unionist Government 1895-1905|Conservative administration]] of [[Arthur Balfour]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Mr Balfour´s Ministry - full list of appointments |day_of_week=Saturday |date=9 August 1902 |page_number=5 |issue=36842}}</ref> a post he held until 1903, and was then [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] under Balfour from 1903 to 1905.

==Personal life==
Lord Percy died in [[Paris]] in December 1909, aged 38. The official cause of death was [[pleurisy]] although there were rumours that he had been mortally wounded in a duel.<ref>{{cite news|title=PEER DIES IN PARIS; DUEL STORY DENIED; Police Support Physicians' Statement That Earl Percy Was Victim of Pleurisy. WAS AT SECOND-RATE HOTEL Registered as Plain Mr. Percy -- Rumor of Encounter Believed in London -- Had Held High Office.|date=31 December 1909|work=[[New York Times]]|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E5DC133EE733A25752C3A9649D946897D6CF|access-date=2008-08-07}}</ref>

Further unfounded rumours circulated that he had been murdered on the orders of [[Winston Churchill]], then a rising politician, and that Percy had been the lover of [[Clementine Churchill|Clementine Hozier]], whom Churchill married in 1908. Churchill's mild-mannered brother [[Jack Spencer-Churchill|Jack]] was whispered to have been the unlikely perpetrator of this act.<ref>David Cannadine (1994) ''Aspects of Aristocracy''</ref>

Percy was unmarried and his younger brother Alan succeeded their father in the dukedom.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>

==See also==
*[[Duke of Northumberland]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | lord-warkworth | Earl Percy }}

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