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Percy Edward Thomas was born on 13 September 1883 in South Shields, County Durham, the son of a sea captain from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, with whom the family often travelled. [1] The family moved to Cardiff during the 1890s and Captain Thomas died at sea in 1897.
Thomas Percy (fl. 1563), MP for Plympton Erle; Thomas Percy (died 1572), MP for Westmorland; Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528–1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason, beatified by the Catholic Church; Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont (1422–1460), son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady ...
Percy was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percy and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Guiscard Harbottal. He was the nephew of Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, with whom Anne Boleyn had a romantic association before she became the wife of King Henry VIII.
Thomas Percy Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III of the United Kingdom . Percy's greatest contribution is considered to be his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), the first of the great ballad collections, which was the one work most responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that was a significant part of ...
Thomas Percy (c. 1560 – 8 November 1605) was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was a tall, physically impressive man; little is known of his early life beyond his matriculation in 1579 at the University of Cambridge, and his marriage in 1591 to Martha Wright.
Thomas Percy was a medieval Bishop of Norwich. He was the son of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy and Idonia, daughter of Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford . Percy was nominated 4 February 1355 and was consecrated on 3 January 1356.
Arms of Sir Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, KG Worcester built Wressle Castle, Yorkshire in the 1390s. [1]Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, KG (1343 – 23 July 1403) was an English medieval nobleman and naval commander best known for leading the rebellion with his nephew Henry Percy, known as 'Harry Hotspur', and his elder brother, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.
Arms of Sir Thomas Percy and his wife Eleanor Harbottle on a 16th-century window in Petworth House, Sussex. Sir Thomas Percy (c. 1504 – 2 June 1537) was a participant in the 1537 Bigod's Rebellion in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a Catholic uprising against King Henry VIII.