NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Percy Hugh (1784-1856) Bishop of Carlisle DNB: Percy, Hugh (1784-1856), bishop of Carlisle LBT ID: HuPercy1856 | B/BAP: 1784-01-29 DIED: 1856-02-05 |
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com | |
The son of Algernon Percy, first earl of Beverley, educated at Eton and St John's
College, Cambridge; he was dean of Canterbury (1826) and bishop of Carlisle (1827) Opposed
to reform, he was burned in effigy during the Chartist period. | |