Third, and eldest surviving son of Lord Arden, by Margaretta Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart.

This officer was born on the 15th March, 1794; made lieutenant, June 7, 1814; advanced to the rank of commander, June 13, 1815; and posted, Dec. 7. 1818. He served in one of the boats of the Tigre 80, Captain Benjamin Hallowell, at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the Bay of Rosas, Nov. 1, 1809^[1]; and commanded those of the Tenedos frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, in a successful expedition up the Penobscot river. North America, in Sept. 1814^[2]. We lastly find him commanding the Infernal bomb, at the battle of Algiers.

Captain Perceval married, July 24, 1819, Eliza, eldest daughter of John Hornby, of Hook House, near Titchfield, Esq.