Algernon Heber-Percy
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]
Honours
[edit]- He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 31 December 2013 by Queen Elizabeth II. This affords him the title "Sir" and the post nominal letters "KCVO" for life.
- He was made a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John upon taking office as Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire. Within the order, this affords him the post nominal letters "KStJ" for life.
- He served as honorary colonel of 5th Battalion the Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry from 1998 to 1999.
- He served as honorary colonel of the West Midlands Regiment from 1999 to 2005.
- In 2017 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Chester.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Heber-Percy, Sir Algernon (Eustace Hugh)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 June 2019
- ^ Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 2, p. 2457.
- ^ "Algernon George William Heber-Percy", Parks and Gardens (The Hestercombe Gardens Trust). Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Profile of Lord Lieutenant Algernon Heber-Percy", Shropshire Life Magazine, 22 March 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Shirley Tart, "Goodbye to Sir Algy after 22 years as Lord Lieutenant", Shropshire Star, 30 January 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of Chester. Retrieved 3 August 2020.