Henry Percy, Earl Percy
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Earl Percy, photographed by Sir John Benjamin Stone
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| Under-Secretary of State for India | |
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In office 18 August 1902 – 9 October 1903 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Hardwicke |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
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In office 9 October 1903 – 4 December 1905 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | Viscount Cranborne |
| Succeeded by | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice |
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| Born | 21 January 1871 |
| Died | 30 December 1909 (aged 38) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy (21 January 1871 – 30 December 1909), styled Lord Warkworth until 1899, was a British 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.
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.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
Percy was returned to Parliament for Kensington South in a November 1895 by-election, replacing the ennobled Sir Algernon Borthwick. In August 1902 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for India in the Conservative administration of Arthur Balfour, a post he held until 1903, and was then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Balfour from 1903 to 1905.
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.
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