Background
Percy was the sixth son of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, and his wife Isabella Susannah Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell.
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William Percy
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Career
Entering the navy as a first-class volunteer on board the 64 gun HMS Lion in May 1801 and going with it to China, Percy returned in November 1802 and was posted to the HMS Medusa as a midshipman. Promoted to commander in 1810, his first command was the troopship HMS Mermaid in 1811. Percy and Mermaid transported troops between Britain and Iberia for the Peninsular War).
A court martial determined that the attack was warranted by the circumstances.
Still, this was his last naval service, though he did carry back to England despatches announcing the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans. Foreign a while during his retirement he was a commissioner of excise and - thanks to the influence of his maternal aunt"s stepson, the second Marquess of Exeter - he sat as Tory Member of Parliament for Stamford, Lincolnshire from 1818 to 1826.
He was made a rear-admiral on the retired list on 1 October 1846. Percy died unmarried in October 1855, aged 67.
Membership
6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament.
