Algernon Heber-Percy

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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, [1] 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. [1] 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. [1]

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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Heber-Percy, Sir Algernon (Eustace Hugh)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 June 2019
  2. ↑ Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 2, p. 2457.
  3. ↑ "Algernon George William Heber-Percy", Parks and Gardens (The Hestercombe Gardens Trust). Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Profile of Lord Lieutenant Algernon Heber-Percy", Shropshire Life Magazine, 22 March 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  5. ↑ Shirley Tart, "Goodbye to Sir Algy after 22 years as Lord Lieutenant", Shropshire Star , 30 January 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Honorary Graduates". University of Chester. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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