PERCY, Allan (1577-1611), of Tower Hill, London

bap. 2 July 1577, 6th s. of Henry Percy†, 8th earl of Northumberland and Catherine, da. and coh. of John Neville, 4th Lord Latimer.Add. 5699, f. 96; Collins, Peerage, ii. 327; SP14/23/33. educ. Eton 1591-3; Gloucester Hall, Oxf. 1594; M. Temple 1597; travelled abroad (Low Countries, France, Italy), c.1599-1602; academy, Angers, France 1601. Eton Coll. Reg. comp. W. Sterry, 264; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss.; Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton ed. L. Pearsall Smith, i. 43n; A. Joubert, ‘Les Gentilshommes Étrangers ... à L’Academie D’Equitation D’Angers’, Revue d’Anjou, xxvi, 9; HMC Hatfield, ix. 68. m. 1608, Mary (d. 17 Oct. 1671), da. and h. of Sir John Fitz of Fitzford, Tavistock, Devon, s.p. G.H. Radford, ‘Lady Howard of Fitzford’, Trans. Devon Assoc. xxii. 76, 106. cr. KB 6 Jan. 1605. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 157. d. 11 Nov. 1611. Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 314-18.