Surname: Percy Forename(s): Thomas b. 13 April 1729. d. 30 September 1811. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, translator, antiquarian, scholar, and bishop. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Served as one of King George III’s chaplains-in-ordinary in 1769. Appointed Dean of
Carlisle in 1778 and Bishop of Dromore in 1782. Acquaintances with Edmund Burke, Thomas
Gray, David Hume, and Samuel Johnson. Published an influential collection of ballads,
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, in 1765. Biographical information: ODNB. (SCM)