A LOYALIST. Was created Baron Gerard of Brandon by Charles I., 1645, and Earl of Macclesfield by Charles II., in 1672. He was succeeded by his son, who died childless, as did his successor in turn; when the title became extinct in the Gerard family.
No. 124.
ALGERNON PERCY, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
By Sir Peter Lely.
BORN 1602, DIED 1668.
Black dress. Blue ribbon.
THE third son of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, by Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, under Robert Hughes, the celebrated mathematician, and in 1616 was one of the youthful Knights of the Bath, at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales.
On the accession of that Prince to the Throne, he was called by writ to the House of Peers (his father being then alive) as Baron Percy.