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Personal data John PERCEVAL 

• He was born on February 25, 1710/11 in Pall Mall, St James, Westminster, Middlesex.
• He was baptized on March 8, 1710/11 in St James, Westminster, Middlesex.
• Title: 2nd Earl of Egmont, First Lord of the Admiralty
• He died on December 4, 1770 in Pall Mall, St James, Westminster, Middlesex, he was 60 years old.
• He is buried on December 23, 1770 in Charlton, Greenwich, Kent.
• A child of John PERCEVAL and Katherine PARKER

Household of John PERCEVAL

He is married to Catherine CECIL.

They got married on February 15, 1737 at Charlton by Dover, Kent, he was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. John James PERCEVAL  -1822 
2. Cecil Parker PERCEVAL  1739-1753
3. Philip Tufton PERCEVAL  1742-????
4. Frederick Augustus PERCEVAL  1749-1757
5. Catherine PERCEVAL  ± 1746-1782
6. Edward PERCEVAL  1744-1824

Notes about John PERCEVAL

John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (25 February 1711 - 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty.

He was the son and heir of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont by his wife Catherine Parker, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet of Arwarton. He was baptised at the Palace of Westminster, London. He succeeded his father in 1748 as 2nd Earl of Egmont in the Peerage of Ireland.

Career
Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dingle between 1731 and 1749. In April 1748, he was created Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. He was made a Privy Counsellor in January 1755.

He sat in the Parliament of Ireland for Dingle (1731-49) and in the House of Commons for Westminster (1741-47), Weobley (1747-54) and Bridgwater (1754-62). In 1762 he was created Baron Lovel and Holland, of Enmore in the County of Somerset, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

He was appointed joint Postmaster-General for 1762-3 alongside Robert Hampden, 4th Baron Trevor[citation needed] and served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1763 to 1766.

From 1751 to 1757, he designed and created Enmore Castle at Enmore in Somerset, which received "the dismissive mockery of Horace Walpole".

Marriages
Perceval married twice. His first marriage was on 15 February 1737 to Lady Catherine Cecil (died 16 August 1752, aged 33), who was the second daughter of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury. By her he had five sons and two daughters:
John Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont (1738-1822), eldest son and heir
Cecil Parker Perceval (born 19 October 1739), who died at Eton College on 4 March 1753
Philip Tufton Perceval (born 10 March 1742), a captain in the Royal Navy
Edward Perceval, (19 April 1744 - 1824), a captain in the Royal Dragoon Guards, who on 27 July 1775 married Sarah Howarth, daughter of John Howarth
Frederick Augustus Perceval (11 February 1749 - 21 January 1757)
Catherine Perceval (died June 1782), who on 13 September 1766 was married to Thomas Wynn (1736-1807) (afterwards 1st Baron Newborough);
Margaret Perceval (died 23 January 1750), who died an infant.

His second marriage was to Catherine Compton (died 11 June 1784, aged 53), the third daughter of the Hon. Charles Compton, who following his death was created on 23 May 1770 Baroness Arden of Lohort Castle in the county of Cork in the peerage of Ireland, with remainder to her heirs male. She survived her husband and died at Langley, Buckinghamshire, on 11 June 1784, aged 53.

By Catherine Compton he had three sons and six daughters as follows:
Charles George Perceval (1756-1840), eldest son, who succeeded his mother as Baron Arden in the peerage of Ireland, and was created a peer of the United Kingdom, with the title of Baron Arden of Arden in the county of Warwick
Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), 2nd son, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry Perceval (died 27 July 1772, aged 7)
Mary Perceval (died 18 September 1839), who was married on 2 April 1781 to Andrew Berkeley Drummond of Cadlands, Hampshire, a grandson of William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan (died 1746)
Anne Perceval (died 1 August 1772), died aged 12
Charlotte Perceval (died 19 February 1761), died an infant
Elizabeth Perceval (died 4 April 1846, aged 82), died unmarried
Frances Perceval (died 22 August 1817), who was married on 6 June 1803 to John, 1st Baron Redesdale
Margaret Perceval (died 12 December 1854), who was married on 1 December 1803 to Thomas Walpole, sometime ambassador at Munich, a nephew of Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (created 1806)

Death
Lord Perceval died 4 December 1770 at Pall Mall, London, aged 59.

Sources
Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Egmont, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 18.
Barker, George Fisher Russell (1895). "Perceval, John (1683-1748)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Wilkinson, Clive. "Perceval, John, second earl of Egmont (1711-1770)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.

External links
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont Manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont. Diary of Viscount Percival 1920 access date 3 March 2015
"Enmore Castle". Images of England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perceval,_2nd_Earl_of_Egmont

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