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

• 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]