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April,  1904. 
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ing  Duke  of  Northumberland,  he  took  the  name  of  Percy  by  authority 
of  an  act  of  Parliament.  He  attained  the  peerage  not  through  in- 
heritance but  because  of  his  own  abilities. 
At  the  time  of  his  birth  James  Smithson's  mother  was  Elizabeth 
r 
James  Smithson. 
Hungerford  Keate  Macie,  widow  of  James  Macie,  a  country  gentle- 
man living  at  Weston,  near  Bath,  England.  Mrs.  Macie  was  a 
cousin  of  Elizabeth  Percy,  the  wife  of  the  Duke  of  Northumberland. 
She  was  a  grandniece  of  Charles,  Duke  of  Somerset,  through  whom 
she  was  descended  from  Henry  the  Seventh.    According  to  an 
