Background
The son of Richard Percival of Royton Hall, near Oldham in Lancashire, he was born there on 1 September 1719.
The son of Richard Percival of Royton Hall, near Oldham in Lancashire, he was born there on 1 September 1719.
Percival was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 25 November 1756, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 June 1760. He died in December 1762, and was buried in Saint Paul"s Church, Royton. Percival married Martha, daughter of Major Benjamin Gregge of Chamber Hall, Oldham.
She died in 1760, aged 45.
Their only child Katherine, married Joseph Pickford of Alternate Hill, Lancashire. Pickford was later known as Sir Joseph Radcliffe, 1st Baronet, of Milnesbridge, Yorkshire, and it was to him that Percival"s collection of manuscript pedigrees and other papers passed.
Royal Society.