Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
(1871-1909), Politician and travellerSitter in 9 portraits
Politician and traveller. The eldest son of Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, Percy excelled as a student at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1895 he became Conservative MP for South Kensington and first visited Turkey and other areas of the Near East that were to be the subject of his main personal and political interests. Two books on Turkey of 1898 and 1901 established him as a key sympathiser of Turkey and he advocated Turkish interests as a junior member of Balfour's 1902-5 administration. He argued the Muslim case in debates concerning Indian reform. His early death from influenza was seen as depriving the Conservative Party of one its most promising younger members.
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Richard George Mathews
charcoal and pastel, 1908
NPG 6733
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 1901
NPG x33985
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 1901
NPG x33986
'Luncheon Party to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottomon Parliament at the House of Commons'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1909
NPG x135604
'Luncheon Party to the Delegates of the Imperial Ottomon Parliament at the House of Commons'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 22 July 1909
NPG x135605
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy ('Statesmen. No. 689.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 September 1897
NPG D44871
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1896
NPG x30595
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1896
NPG x30596
Henry Algernon George Percy, Earl Percy
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1896
NPG x30597
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