Algernon Heber-Percy Explained

Sir Algernon Eustace Hugh Heber-Percy, KCVO (born 2 January 1944) is a British landowner, farmer and public official.

Heber-Percy was born in 1944, to Daphne Parker Bowles and the army officer Brigadier Algernon George William Heber-Percy (1904–1961), who remodelled a large part of the gardens at the Heber-Percy family's ancestral home, Hodnet Hall, Shropshire.[1] [2] [3]

Having served in the Army for four years, Heber-Percy returned to live in Hodnet Hall in 1966; he studied agriculture at a local college and has managed the family's farming estates thereafter. He has also extensively renovated the house with his wife Jane,[4] daughter of the 3rd Viscount Leverhulme. He has been involved in a number of organisations, including periods as a trustee of the National Gardens Scheme and as a member of the National Trust's regional committee. Since 1988, he has been president of the Shropshire and Mid Wales Hospice, now called Severn Hospice. In 1986, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Shropshire and served as high sheriff for the 1987–88 year; he was appointed vice-lord lieutenant in 1990 and then served as lord lieutenant from 1996 to 2019.

Heber-Percy retired as lord lieutenant in January 2019, at the age of 75.[5] He had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2014.

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References

  1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-19716 "Heber-Percy, Sir Algernon (Eustace Hugh)"
  2. Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 2, p. 2457.
  3. https://www.parksandgardens.org/people/algernon-george-william-heber-percy "Algernon George William Heber-Percy"
  4. https://www.shropshirelifemagazine.co.uk/people/profile-of-lord-lieutenant-algernon-heber-percy-1-1643607 "Profile of Lord Lieutenant Algernon Heber-Percy"
  5. Shirley Tart, "Goodbye to Sir Algy after 22 years as Lord Lieutenant", Shropshire Star, 30 January 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  6. Web site: Honorary Graduates. University of Chester. 3 August 2020.