Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland

Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. A moderate, he was made lord high admiral in 1637. He was a member of the committee of safety, and later of the committee of both kingdoms; and he took an active part in the attempts to come to terms with the king. He helped to organize the New Model Army. He led the opposition in the House of Lords to the proposal to bring Charles I to trial, and during the Commonwealth took no part in public affairs. At the Restoration he became a member of Charles II's Privy Council and with his habitual moderation he deprecated harsh proceedings against the regicides. His second wife, Elizabeth (d. 1705), daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, brought him Northumberland House in the Strand, demolished 1874. See http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Algernon%20Percy,%2010th%20Earl%20of%20Northumberland