Richard Percivale

Richard Perceval (1556-1621), of Twickenham, Somerset (manner of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger). Inscribed: Richard Percival, 4th of that name, son of George lord of Sydenham, Nailsay, etc, County of Som(erse)t...
Arms of Richard Percivale: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Argent, on a chief indented gules three crosses patée of the field (Perceval); 2nd & 3rd: Barry nebulée of six or and gules (Lovel)[1]

Sir Richard Percivale (alias Perceval etc.) (1550 – 4 September 1620) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, was an English administrator and politician, also known as a Hispanist and lexicographer. He wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers, A Spanish Grammar, and a dictionary, both included in his Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591); this work was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English (London: Edmund Bollifant, 1599; London: printed by John Haviland for various booksellers, including William Aspley, Matthew Lownes, and George Latham, 1623).[2]

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.409, Earl of Egmont
  2. ^ A Dictionary in Spanish and English