In 1. Sudan Campaign, taking part in the operations in Southern Kordofan and gaining the Egyptian medal. For a time he acted as Aide de Camp to Earl Grey. During his time as ADC in Canada, he undertook a wager to walk 1. During the First World War he served with the Grenadier Guards, working with the Intelligence Department to provide eyewitness accounts of battles and the front line. His brother Lord William Percy also served during the War wounded in 1. War working as a military attorney. He was made a Chevalier of the Lgion dhonneur. Other activitieseditThe Duke was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. For one year before his death he served as Chancellor of the University of Durham, a role his father had also held. From 1. 92. 2 until his death he financed and directed the Patriot, a radical right wing weekly which published Nesta Webster and promulgated a mix of anti communism and anti semitism. Marriage and familyeditOn 1. October 1. 91. 1, Percy married Lady Helen Magdalan Gordon Lennox daughter of Charles Gordon Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond. They had six children 4The 8th Duke died in 1. Northumberland Vault, within Westminster Abbey. He was succeeded in the dukedom and his other titles by his eldest son, Henry. AncestryeditAncestors of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland. Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley. George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland. Isabella Burrell. Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland. The Hon. James Stuart Wortley Mackenzie. Louisa Stuart Wortley Mackenzie. Margaret Cunynghame. Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland. Henry Drummond. 10. Henry Drummond. 21. The Hon. Anne Dundas. Louisa Drummond. 22. Robert Hay Drummond, 1. Earl of Kinnoull. Lady Henrietta Hay Drummond. Sarah Harley. 1. Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland. John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll. John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll. Elizabeth Gunning, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon. George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. John Glassel. 13. Joan Glassel. 27. Helen Buchan. 3. Lady Edith Campbell. George Leveson Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. George Sutherland Leveson Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. Elizabeth Gordon, 1. Countess of Sutherland. Lady Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson Gower. George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle. Lady Harriet Howard. Lady Georgiana Cavendish. A Year Ago Eye witnesss Narrative of the War from March 3. July 1. 8th, 1. 91. E. D. Swinton, Longmans, Green Co., 1. The Realities of the Situation,The Patriot, Vol. I, No. 1, February 9, 1. First Jewish Bid For World Power, Reprinted from the Patriot, January, 1. Other. ReferenceseditFurther readingeditRuotsila, Markku 2. The Catholic Apostolic Church in British Politics, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. LVI 1, pp. 7. 59. External linksedit.