Percy Kirke

(1646 c.-1691)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691 DNB: Kirke, Percy (d. 1691), army officer LBT ID: PeKirke1691 VIAF ID: 70334138 LOC ID: n84134212	B/BAP: 1646 DIED: 1691-10-31
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English military officer remembered for his cruelty in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion; William III made him a major general and he fought at the Battle of the Boyne.
REFERENCES TO Percy Kirke: Sir James Mackintosh to William Godwin, [late 1823] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. X. 1819-1824