LC control no. | no2008042632 |
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Personal name heading | Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786 |
Variant(s) | Percy, Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, 1712-1786 Percy, Hugh, Earl of Northumberland, 1712-1786 Smithson, Hugh, 1712-1786 |
Birth date | 1712 |
Death date | 1786 |
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Found in | The Zingara, also known as the Egyptian woman. Etching by G. Scotin after R. Dalton, 1745: dedication (To S.r Hugh Smithson Bart) John Cannon, "Percy, Hugh, first duke of Northumberland (bap. 1712, d. 1786)" in: Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004: (Percy [formerly Smithson], Hugh, first duke of Northumberland (bap. 1712, d. 1786), politician ... he inherited the baronetcy from his grandfather Sir Hugh Smithson, third baronet, in 1729 ... in 1748, the seventh duke of Somerset persuaded the king to grant him the earldom of Northumberland, with a special remainder to Smithson ... Smithson succeeded to the title in February 1750 and assumed the name Percy by act of parliament. ... In May 1766 Northumberland held out for a dukedom, which the king, plainly disconcerted, granted with some reluctance) OCLC, 18 Mar. 2008: (hdg.: Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1715-1786.) |