No. 8.
ALGERNON PERCY, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
Black dress. White collar. Blue ribbon.
BORN 1602, DIED 1668.
By Vandyck.
THE third son of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, by Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, Earl of Sussex. 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.
He afterwards, as Privy Councillor, attended the King to Scotland for his coronation, having by that time succeeded to his father’s titles and estates.
In 1636 he had the command of a noble fleet,—the largest, says Lodge, since the death of Queen Elizabeth.