RARE “3rd Duke of Northumberland" Hugh Percy Clipped Signature For Sale

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for sale the "3rd Duke of Northumberland" Hugh Percy Clipped 3rd Duke of Northumberland KG, PC (20 April

1785 – 11 February 1847), styled Earl Percy until 1817,

was a who

served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under

the Duke of Wellington from

1829 to 1830. Northumberland was the son of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of

Northumberland, and Frances Julia, daughter

of Peter Burrell. He was educated at Eton and

the University of Cambridge (St John's College). Northumberland entered

parliament as the member for Buckingham in July

1806. In September of that year he was elected member for the City of Westminster, on

the death of Charles James Fox. He declined to fight the

seat at the general election two months later, instead being returned for Launceston. In 1807 he

offered himself as a candidate for the county of Northumberland in

opposition to Charles, Lord Howick (afterwards the

2nd Earl Grey), who declined to contest the seat. Percy was returned unopposed,

and continued to sit until 1812, when he was called to the House of

Lords through a writ of acceleration by the title

Baron Percy. In

1817 he succeeded his father as Duke of Northumberland. He served as Ambassador

Extraordinary at the coronation of Charles X of France in 1825, defraying the

expenses thereof himself, and he "astonished the continental nobility of

the magnitude of his retinue, the gorgeousness of his equippage, and the

profuseness of his liberality". In March 1829 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a post he held

until the following year. He was thus in office when the Catholic Emancipation Act was

passed, and was pronounced by Robert Peel "the

best chief governor that ever presided over the affairs of Ireland."  In

November 1834 Northumberland was elected high Steward of the university of

Cambridge, holding that honour until 1840 when he was made Chancellor of a prominent role in the establishment of the Church Building Society

responsible for building the so-called "Waterloo

churches" during the early 19th century. He proposed the CBS's

formation at a meeting in the Freemasons' Hall, London on 6 February 1818,

chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Society

lobbied parliament to provide funding for a church building programme, and

parliament subsequently passed the Church Building Act, voting £l,000,000 to

the cause. He also played a part in the development of football in a time when it was a

controversial game by providing a field for the and presenting the ball before the match—a ritual

that continues to this day. Between 1817 and 1847 he held the honorary post

of Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.

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