Percy

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Percy (pronunciation, pehr-SEE) may refer to:

People:

Percy is a short form of the first name Percival.

Percy meaning "Piercing the valley"

People with the last, or sur, name of Percy:

• Charles H. Percy (b. 1919), businessman, special ambassador, politician, Senator Illinois-R (1967–1985)
• George Percy (1586–1631), English explorer and author, governor of Virginia
• Hugh Earl Percy, (1742–1817), Duke of Northumberland, American Revolutionary War
• James Gilbert Percy, American pilot, U.S. Marine Corps ace in World War II, VMF-112, Guadalcanal
• Le Roy Percy (1860–1929), planter, lawyer, and politician, Senator Mississippi-D (1910–1913)
• Thomas Percy (1729–1811), English poet, Bishop of Dromore, editor of the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Spectator
• Thomas Percy (c. 1560–1605), English, Gunpowder Plot
• Walker Percy (1916–1990), American writer, cousin to William Alexander Percy
• William Percy (1744–1819), English clergyman
• William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), American poet, writer, cousin to Walker Percy

People with the first or middle name of Percy:

• Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916), English barrister and writer
• Percy Adlon (b. 1935), German film and television director, writer, and producer
• Henry Percy Brewster (1816–1884), lawyer and personal secretary of Sam Houston,
• Percy Clarkson, U.S. Army Major General 87th, 33d, & 3d Infantry Division in World War II
• Percy Zachariah Cox (1864–1937) British administrator and diplomat
• Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, World War I & II [1]
• Percy Eugene Foreman (1902–1988), millionaire murder case criminal-defense lawyer, defended James Earl Ray, Melvin Lane Powers, Alvin Lee King, Charles Harrelson
• Percy Gardner (1846–1937), English classical archaeologist
• Percy Grainger, American musician
• Percy Ives (1864 1928), American painter
• Percy Jones (1885–1951), railroad executive, oilman, philanthropist
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), American research chemist
• Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870–1948), English surgeon and ornithologist
• Percy MacKaye (1875–1956), American dramatist and poet
• Percy Metcalfe English artist, currency designer
• Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875–1964), Scottish born Canadian architect
• Sir Percy Noble, British Admiral in World War II, Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches
• Percy Noble, former Member of Parliament in Canada
• Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934), son of William Rockefeller, director of Remington Arms Company
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet
• Percy Thrower (1913–1988), British gardener and television host
• Percy Marshall Young (1912–2004), British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher
• William Percy French (1854–1920), Irish songwriter and entertainer
• Percy Harvin, Wide Receiver for the Florida Gators

[edit] The House of Percy

• The House of Percy (also Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages, having gained the title Baron Percy already in 1066. Members have held the titles of Earl of Northumberland or Duke of Northumberland to this day. Prominent members of the family include:
  • Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408) (forfeit 1405)
  • Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur
  • Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1394–1455)
  • Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421–1461) (forfeit 1461)
  • Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (1449–1489) (restored 1470)
  • Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (1478–1527)
  • Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (1502–1537)
  • Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528–1572) (forfeit 1571; restored 1572)
  • Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland (1532–1585)
  • Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (1564–1632)
  • Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland (1602–1668)
  • Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland (1644–1670)
  • Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1714–1786) (became Duke of Northumberland in 1766)
  • Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1714–1786)
  • Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (1742–1817)
  • Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland (1785–1847)
  • Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland (1792–1865)
  • George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland (1778–1867)
  • Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland (1810–1899)
  • Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland (1846–1918)
  • Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland (1880–1930)
  • Henry George Alan Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (1912–1940)
  • Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland (1914–1988)
  • Henry Alan Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland (1953–1995)
  • Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland (b. 1956)
  • George Dominic Percy, Earl Percy (b. May 4, 1984)

[edit] Places

• Australia
  • Percy Islands, Australia, group of islands in Queensland

• Canada:
  • Percy Lake, Ontario

• France:
  • Percy, in the Isère département
  • Percy, in the Manche département; site of August 1, 1944 battle between the 28th Infantry Division and the Germans
  • Percy-en-Auge, in the Calvados département

• United States:
  • Percy, Illinois, town in Randolph County, Illinois
  • Point Percy, cape, in Alaska, group of islands in the borough of Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan
  • Percy Islands, Alaska, group of islands in the borough of Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan
  • Percy Peaks, series of peaks in Coos County, New Hampshire

Other

• Percy is a 1971 British comedy film.
• HIA Percy, a military hospital in France
• Percy Drayton (1863–1865), sloop, American Civil War
• Percy was a character in Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
• Ricardo Carvalho, Chelsea FC centre-back, nicknamed Percy due to his resemblance to the Blackadder character
• percy is a slang name for the penis - "point percy at the porcelein"

See also:

• The Percy Folio, book of English ballads