John Kellie Heber-Percy, who died in Australia, 3 September, 2024, aged 89, was a sion of the Percy Dukes of Northumberland.
He was born 13 June, 1935, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Alan Heber-Percy, OBE (1897-1976), and his wife, the former Monica Violet Erskine (1897-1977), scion of the Earls of Mar & Kellie, & widow of Lt-Col. G.D. Maynard.
He was educated at Hilton College, Natal, South Africa, and was for many years a resident of Victoria, Australia. He married 2 September, 1961, Rosalind Marion Gathercole, daughter of Walter Harvey Gathercole, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, by whom he had issue, two daughters, Gillian Dorothy (Gill) (born 31 May, 1965), and Helen Marjorie (born 28 March, 1968).
His elder daughter, Gill, married in 1987, Michael Alan Dixon who later assumed the surname of Heber-Percy in lieu of his patronymic.
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