Algernon Percy (diplomat) explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Honourable
Algernon Percy
Office1:	Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons
Term1:	1825-1832
Father:	Algernon Percy
Mother:	Isabella Burrell
Relatives:	Charlotte Ashburnham (sister) George Percy (brother) Hugh Percy (brother) Josceline Percy (brother) Henry Percy (brother) William Henry Percy (brother) Hugh Percy (grandfather) Elizabeth Percy (grandmother) Peter Burrell (grandfather)
Spouse:	Anne-Marie Prestilly-FitzGerald
Children:	2+

The Honourable Algernon Percy (1779–1833), was a British diplomat.

Percy was the second son of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley and Isabella Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons from 1825 to 1832, succeeding Charles Richard Vaughan.^[1]

Family

Percy married in a morganatic arrangement Anne-Marie Prestilly-FitzGerald, illegitimate daughter of Lord Charles FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale and Anne-Marie Preston-Prestilly.^[2] Their surviving children were:

• Mary Preston Prestilly-Percy, born in Switzerland in 1830, married Henry Hume, a Scottish gentleman.
• Henry Preston Prestilly-Percy, born in Southampton, England around 1832, a diplomat in Peru, married Eliza Díaz de la Peña Lady of Huasan in Argentina, legitimate daughter and heir of Miguel Díaz de la Peña earl of Huasan and Josefa Cabero Gomez Marin.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Beverley, Earl of (GB, 1790) . 2010-07-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110421052906/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index545.htm . 2011-04-21 . dead.
2. Web site: Directory of Royal Genealogical Data . Hull University . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071128072440/http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/genealogy/royal . 2007-11-28.
3. http://FamilySearch.org: 19 September 2016. Catholic Church parishes, Catamarca