Hugh Percy (bishop)

The Rt Reverend and Honourable Hugh Percy
Bishop of Carlisle

Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Carlisle
Elected	1827
Term ended	1856 (death)
Predecessor	Samuel Goodenough
Successor	Henry Villiers
Other posts	Bishop of Rochester 1827 Dean of Canterbury 1825–1827
Orders
Consecration	15 July 1827
Personal details
Born	(1784-01-29)29 January 1784 London
Died	5 February 1856(1856-02-05) (aged 72) Cumbria
Buried	Dalston, Cumbria
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Residence	Rose Castle, Cumbria
Parents	Algernon, Earl of Beverley & Isabella, Countess of Beverley (née Burrell)
Spouse	Mary Manners-Sutton m. 1806; d. 1831 Mary Johnstone m. 1840
Children	11 (8 daughters, 3 sons)
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Hugh Percy (29 January 1784 – 5 February 1856) was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rochester (1827) and Bishop of Carlisle (1827-56).

Life

Percy was born in London, the third son of Algernon, 1st Earl of Beverley by Isabella Susannah Burrell, second daughter of Peter Burrell and sister of Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr. His mother was sister of Frances Julia Burrell, who married Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

Percy was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA 1805 and DD in 1825; he was admitted DD ad eundem at Oxford University in 1834.^[1]

Having taken holy orders, he married, on 19 May 1806, Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom in 1809 he was collated to the benefices of Bishopsbourne and Ivychurch, Kent. In 1810 he was appointed chancellor and a prebendary of Exeter, appointments he held until 1816. On 21 December 1812 he was installed as Canon Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral. In 1816 he was collated by his father-in-law to a prebendal stall at Canterbury Cathedral and in the same year he received the stall of Finsbury at St Paul's Cathedral, which he held until his death. In 1822 he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury, and in 1825, on the death of Gerrard Andrewes, he was promoted as Dean of Canterbury Cathedral. While Dean of Canterbury he set in motion the repair of the interior of the cathedral. Two years later (15 July 1827), on the death of Walker King, he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester; after a few months' tenure, he was translated, on the death of Samuel Goodenough, to Carlisle. This bishopric he held till his death.

In 1838 he established a clergy aid society, and in 1855 a diocesan education society. He found Rose Castle, the episcopal residence, much dilapidated; he called in the architect Thomas Rickman, and the house was entirely remodelled. The main cost was defrayed out of the episcopal revenues, but he spent his own money on the gardens, grounds, and outbuildings. A rosary was laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton, who also formed the terraced gardens. He was fond of farming, and on his journeys to and from London, to attend the House of Lords, he used to drive his four horses himself. He died at Rose Castle and was buried in the parish churchyard of Dalston.

Family

His first wife, Mary Manners-Sutton, by whom he had three sons and eight daughters, died in September 1831. He married, secondly, in February 1840, Mary, the daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir William Hope Johnstone. His eldest son, Algernon, served as a Major in the Shropshire Yeomanry and married Emily, daughter of Bishop Reginald Heber; she was heiress to her uncle, Richard Heber MP and, in 1847, he assumed by Royal Licence the additional surname of Heber, becoming Algernon Heber-Percy, after inheriting her family's estates at Hodnet and Airmyn.^[2] His second son, the Revd Henry Percy, was also an Anglican priest (Rector of Leasingham).^[3]

References

↑ The Dictionary of National Biography erroneously states he was at Trinity College, Cambridge. "Percy, the Hon. Hugh (PRCY802H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ The Peerage – Algernon Heber-Percy
↑ The Peerage – Rt Revd Hon Hugh Percy

External links

www.oxforddnb.com

Church of England titles
Preceded by Gerrard Andrewes	Dean of Canterbury 1825–1827	Succeeded by Richard Bagot
Preceded by Walker King	Bishop of Rochester 1827–1827	Succeeded by George Murray
Preceded by Samuel Goodenough	Bishop of Carlisle 1827–1856	Succeeded by Henry Villiers

Deans of Canterbury

Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore The Hon James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall

Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis

Bishops of Rochester

Pre-Conquest	Justus Romanus Paulinus of York Ithamar Damianus Putta Cwichelm Gebmund Tobias Aldwulf Dunn Eardwulf Diora Waermund (I) Beornmod Tatnoth Badenoth Waermund (II) Cuthwulf Swithwulf Ceolmund Cyneferth Burgric Beorhtsige Ælfstan Godwine (I) Godwine (II) Siward

Conquest–Reformation	Arnost Gundulf Ralph d'Escures Ernulf John (I) John (II) Ascelin Walter Waleran Gilbert Glanvill Benedict of Sausetun Henry Sandford Richard Wendene Lawrence of St Martin Walter de Merton John Bradfield John Kirkby Thomas Ingoldsthorpe Thomas Wouldham Hamo Hethe John Sheppey William Whittlesey Thomas Trilleck Thomas Brinton William Bottlesham John Bottlesham Richard Young John Kemp John Langdon Thomas Brunce William Wells John Low Thomas Rotherham John Alcock John Russell Edmund Audley Thomas Savage Richard FitzJames John Fisher

Post-Reformation	John Hilsey Nicholas Heath Henry Holbeach Nicholas Ridley John Ponet John Scory Maurice Griffith Edmund Allen Edmund Gheast Edmund Freke John Piers John Young William Barlow Richard Neile John Buckeridge Walter Curle John Bowle John Warner John Dolben Francis Turner Thomas Sprat Francis Atterbury Samuel Bradford Joseph Wilcocks Zachary Pearce John Thomas Samuel Horsley Thomas Dampier Walker King Hon Hugh Percy George Murray Joseph Wigram Thomas Claughton Anthony Thorold Randall Davidson Edward Talbot John Harmer Linton Smith Christopher Chavasse David Say Michael Turnbull Michael Nazir-Ali James Langstaff

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