The fifth son of Algernon Percy, second Baron Lovaine; educated at Eton, he was aide-de-camp to the duke of Wellington and brought home the Waterloo dispatches. He was afterwards MP for Bene Alston, Devon.

REFERENCES TO Hon. Henry Percy [Hotspur]:

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 6 April 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)