Isabella Percy, Countess of Beverley

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| name = {{nowrap|Isabella Susan Percy}}

| honorific_suffix = Countess of Beverley

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| birth_place = {{nowrap|Kent, England}}

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| father = {{nowrap|Peter Burrell}}

| mother = Elizabeth Lewis

| spouse = {{marriage|Algernon Percy|8 June 1775|1812}}

| children = 13; {{nowrap|Charlotte Ashburnham, Countess of Ashburnham}}
Elizabeth Percy
George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland
Algernon Percy
Lady Susanna Percy
Hugh Percy
Josceline Percy
Henry Percy
Lady Emily Drummond
William Henry Percy
Francis John Percy
Lord Charles Percy
Lady Louisa Percy

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| relatives = Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr (brother)
Frances Burrell (sister)
Elizabeth Burrell (sister)

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Isabella Susan Percy, Countess of Beverley (19 December 1750 – 24 January 1812), formerly Isabella Susan (or Susannah) Burrell, was the wife of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, and the mother of the 5th Duke of Northumberland.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 175.

Isabella was the second daughter of Peter Burrell, a barrister, of Beckenham, Kent, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Lewis.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 595. Her brother was Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr. Two of her sisters married into the aristocracy: Elizabeth, who married the Duke of Hamilton (and later the Marquess of Exeter), and Frances, who became Duchess of Northumberland.

Isabella married the future earl on 8 June 1775, by special licence, at Syon House in London.{{cite book|author=Daniel Lysons|title=The Environs of London: Kent, Essex, and Herts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dpcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA465|year=1811|publisher=T. Cadell and W. Davies|pages=465–}} Their children were:

• Lady Charlotte Percy (1776-1862), who married George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, and had children.
• Lady Elizabeth Percy (1777-1779), who died in infancy and was buried within the Northumberland Vault in Westminster Abbey.[http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/elizabeth,-duchess-of-northumberland Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland - Westminster Abbey]
• George Percy, later 5th Duke of Northumberland (1778–1867), who married Louisa Harcourt Stuart-Wortley and had children
• Hon. Algernon Percy (1779–1833), diplomat, who married Anne-Marie Prestilly-FitzGerald and had children
• [a child](stillborn)(1781)
• Lady Susanna Percy (born 1782)
• Hon. Hugh Percy (1784–1856), later Bishop of Rochester and Carlisle, who married Mary Manners-Sutton and had children
• Hon. Josceline Percy (1784–1856), naval commander, who married Margaret Davidson and had one child
• Hon. Henry Percy (1785–1825), army officer, who died unmarried but with two illegitimate children by Marion Durand: Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand and Percy Durand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/percy-hon-henry-1785-1825|title = PERCY, Hon. Henry (1785-1825), of 8 Portman Square, MDX. | History of Parliament Online}}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifesirhenrymar00sirgoog#page/n17/mode/1up|title = The life of ... Sir Henry Marion Durand| year=1883 }}{{cite book|author=Brian Cathcart|title=The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAG4BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56|date=28 April 2015|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-31527-7|pages=56–}} Sir Henry Durand's son was created a baronet in 1892.
• Lady Emily Charlotte Percy (1786-1877), who married Andrew Mortimer Drummond.
• Hon. William Henry Percy (1788–1855), politician and naval commander{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/percy-hon-william-1788-1855|title=PERCY, Hon. William Henry (1788-1855)|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 September 2018}}
• Hon. Francis John Percy (1790–1812), army officer.
• Lord Charles Greatheed Bertie Percy (1794–1870), MP,{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/percy-hon-charles-1794-1870|title=PERCY (afterwards GREATHEED BERTIE PERCY), Hon. Charles (1794-1870), of Guys Cliffe, nr. Warwick.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 September 2018}} who married Ann Caroline Greatheed, the granddaughter of Bertie Greatheed, and had one child
• Lady Louisa Margaret Percy (1796-1796), who died in infancy and is buried within the Northumberland Vault in Westminster Abbey.

In 1786, Percy inherited the title of Lord Lovaine, and his wife became Lady Lovaine. In 1790, he was created 1st Earl of Beverley, and his wife became Countess of Beverley. The countess died in 1812, aged 61, and was buried in the Northumberland Vault at Westminster Abbey.{{cite book|author=Joseph Lemuel Chester|title=The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster|url=https://archive.org/details/marriagebaptism00chesgoog|year=1876|publisher=Harleian Society|pages=[https://archive.org/details/marriagebaptism00chesgoog/page/n513 483]–}}

The Earl of Beverley died in October 1830, aged 80, and was succeeded by his eldest son, George, who later inherited the dukedom of Northumberland from his cousin, the 4th Duke, in 1865.