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Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott. Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, DL (born 16 November 1956), styled Lord Ralph Percy until 1995, is a British hereditary peer and rural landowner and current head of the House of Percy .
Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12.º duque de Northumberland, (16 de noviembre de 1956), llamado Lord Ralph Percy hasta 1995, es un aristócrata y terrateniente británico. Biografía. Ralph Percy fue el quinto hijo y segundo varón de los siete hijos de Hugh Percy, 10.º duque de Northumberland, y su mujer, Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott.
Sir Ralph Percy (11 August 1425 – 25 April 1464) was an English nobleman of the House of Percy, a knight, a Governor of Bamburgh Castle and a supporter of the Lancastrian faction in the Wars of the Roses.
It is a remarkable fact, 950 years after the Norman Conquest, that the descendants of William de Percy remain landowners on the same grand scale. The 12th Duke of Northumberland, Ralph Percy, who inherited the dukedom on the death of his elder brother, Henry (1953 – 1995), owns 132,000 acres of land, mainly rented out to tenant farmers.
Ralph inherited the dukedom of Northumberland after the death of his elder brother in 1995. As well as managing the more traditional estate businesses of agriculture, forestry and minerals, the Duke has overseen expansion of the portfolio to include planning and development and commercial property.
The current holder of this title is Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland . 1551 creation. The title was first created in the Peerage of England in 1551 for John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick. He had already been created Viscount Lisle in 1543 and Earl of Warwick in 1547, also in the Peerage of England.
A thousand years of history which covers the story of the Percys and Alnwick Castle since the Norman Conquest: https://www.alnwickcastle.com/shop/ca... Biography: Ralph Percy was born in...
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